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Maduro Faces Torture Charges In Court

15 Oct

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Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were expected to plead not guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges added to a drug trafficking indictment brought months earlier against the two.

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In a statement before the hearing, Pollack said: 'President Maduro denies the charges in the new indictment and looks forward to his day in court.'

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Maduro and Flores (pictured in court on October 8) have been detained in the US since early January, when they were seized and arrested by US authorities in a shock overnight raid at their residence in Caracas

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15 Oct
Maduro and Flores (pictured in court on October 8) have been detained in the US since early January, when they were seized and arrested by US authorities in a shock overnight raid at their residence in Caracas
3 outlets · Daily Mail

Coverage 6 articles

15 Oct Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture-related charges in New York
BBC
15 Oct Venezuela's Maduro due in NYC court over conspiracy to commit torture charges
CBS News
15 Oct Venezuela's Maduro and wife plead not guilty to US torture charges
The Straits Times
15 Oct Defiant Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro rails against torture charges and denies claims Americans were asphyxiated and given electric shocks to the genitals...leading judge to stop him speaking
Daily Mail
15 Oct Nicolás Maduro tells New York court new torture allegations are ‘false’
The Guardian
15 Oct Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is returning to federal court to face torture allegations
Toronto Star

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