US adds torture charges against detained former Venezuelan leader Maduro
US prosecutors filed a revised indictment accusing former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, of conspiring to torture political opponents to stay in power, adding human-rights charges on top of the existing drug-trafficking case; the filing alleges Maduro personally approved torture methods including electric shocks, and separately threatened to kill a prisoner's child as a form of psychological torture; it names Venezuela's DGCIM military intelligence agency. Maduro and Flores, captured in a raid on their Caracas home and held in New York since January, have pleaded not guilty to the drug charges, which carry a possible life sentence. Maduro is separately under International Criminal Court investigation for alleged crimes against humanity, which he denies.