US charges Maduro and Cilia Flores with torture and repression in Venezuela

Maduro and Flores, held since January 3 following a US operation in Caracas and detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, have pleaded not guilty to all charges US federal prosecutors on Thursday brought new torture and repression charges against former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, adding to the drug trafficking and narco-terrorism case both face in a New York court. The same day, the judge denied a request by Flores for house arrest on health grounds.

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