Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife each pleaded not guilty to new charges alleging they tortured U.S. citizens.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in a New York City federal courtroom on Thursday for an arraignment on new charges that the two were allegedly involved in conspiring to commit torture. The new charges joined Maduro and Flores’s initial charges of narcoterrorism for cocaine trafficking and machine-gun possession, created a superseding indictment for the two Venezuelans.

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