Venezuela’s Maduro pleads not guilty to US conspiracy to torture charges | Donald Trump News– www.aljazeera.com
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Flores have pleaded not guilty to new charges of ‘conspiracy to commit torture’, which were unsealed last week.
Maduro and Flores appeared in a New York City courtroom on Thursday after being abducted from Caracas in a United States military operation in January.
The pair had previously pleaded not guilty to several other charges, including narco-terrorism, cocaine importation conspiracy and possession of machineguns and destructive devices.
Maduro spoke briefly at his January court appearance, days after the US military abduction.
“I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,” Maduro said then, adding that he had been “kidnapped”.
US Attorney Jamie McDonald said last week that the couple had for more than two decades “engaged in a conspiracy to commit torture, including the torture of United States citizens, in addition to the narcotics trafficking and weapons offences already charged”.