{"id":24470,"date":"2026-09-03T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:50:24","slug":"maduro-seeks-dismissal-of-u-s-drug-trafficking-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/maduro-seeks-dismissal-of-u-s-drug-trafficking-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro seeks dismissal of U.S. drug trafficking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, has asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss drug trafficking charges against him.<br>Maduro argued that, as the president of a sovereign country, he is entitled to immunity from prosecution under international law and that the U.S. case against him has no legal basis.<br>According to Reuters, the charges were filed in a U.S. federal court in Manhattan, New York.<br>Maduro\u2019s defense lawyer also argued that his client should be protected by legal immunity because of his official position as a head of state.<br>If Maduro\u2019s request is rejected, his trial is scheduled to begin on June 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, has asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss drug trafficking charges against him.Maduro argued that, as the president of a sovereign country, he is entitled to immunity from prosecution under international law and that the U.S. case against him has no legal basis.According to Reuters, the charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24472,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions\/24472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}