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Back|Venezuela's ex-leader Nicolás Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture
Venezuela's ex-leader Nicolás Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture
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BBC World·2 hours ago·World·1 min read·🇬🇧United Kingdom

Venezuela's ex-leader Nicolás Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture

New charges added to existing drug-trafficking and weapons counts against the former Venezuelan leader and his wife.

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  • US prosecutors have filed new conspiracy to commit torture charges against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
  • The couple, currently in custody in Brooklyn, face a trial scheduled for June 2027.

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Maduro and Flores have been held in a Brooklyn detention center since January following a US raid in Caracas. They previously faced drug-trafficking and weapons charges.

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Prosecutors in the United States have accused Venezuela's former leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, of conspiracy to commit torture.

The fresh charges against the couple were made public on Thursday and are in addition to the drug-trafficking and weapons charges already brought against them, which they have denied.

Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, have been in custody since January in a detention centre in Brooklyn, where they were taken after US forces seized them in a pre-dawn raid on their compound in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

Human rights groups in Venezuela and former prisoners have long denounced what they have described as "systematic torture" in Venezuelan jails.

The new accusations relate to the alleged torture of US citizens who were being held in Venezuela while Maduro was in power.

The trial for both Maduro and Flores is set to begin in June 2027.

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  • Trial for Maduro and Flores to begin in June 2027.

    Very likely · Within years

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  • US prosecutors have filed new conspiracy to commit torture charges against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
  • The couple, currently in custody in Brooklyn, face a trial scheduled for June 2027.

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