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Maduro posted a message about Cilia Flores’ health while both remain detained in New York
Flores’ defense asked that she await trial outside prison because of heart problems, but the request was unsuccessful. Both face drug trafficking and terrorism charges in the United States.
The X account attributed to Nicolás Maduro posted a message of thanks for the expressions of support directed at Cilia Flores, amid the legal request filed by her defense for her to await trial under house arrest for health reasons, according to El País of Uruguay, with information from EFE and AFP.
In that text, dated in New York, expressions of solidarity toward Flores were thanked and the public was asked to pray for her recovery. The outlet notes that it is not known who manages that account.
Flores, 69, had asked the New York judicial system to leave prison while the case moves forward, citing heart problems. According to her lawyers’ filing, she suffered chest pain, arrhythmias, difficulty breathing and a loss of more than 11 kilos since her detention.
Still according to El País, the defense argued that the federal prison where she has been held since January 3 does not meet the necessary conditions for her treatment. Federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, in charge of the case, ordered her medical record sealed and granted an additional request to protect those data linked to a possible transfer from the Brooklyn detention center.
Maduro and Flores were captured in January and later transferred to New York, where they face charges related to drug trafficking and terrorism.
Meanwhile, relatives of political prisoners mobilized over the weekend in downtown Caracas to demand new releases and answers to allegations of human rights violations, the same outlet reported. A delegation of three members of the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners was received by the Presidential Office to present its requests. According to the NGO Foro Penal, there are still 328 detainees in Venezuela.
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