# Maduro calls new torture allegations against him and his wife ‘false’

https://mins.news/en/video/102326

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-15 23:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdmmjGzO-7A

> Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told a court Thursday that newly unsealed torture allegations against him and his wife were false. He twice declined a judge’s request to enter a plea, denouncing the accusations and testimony through a courtroom interpreter instead.

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