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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Lawyer: Ex-Honduran president held like a 'prisoner of war'

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is being held like a “prisoner of war” in a New York federal jail, his lawyer told a judge Tuesday.

Attorney Raymond Colon made the assertion as Hernandez pleaded not guilty to charges that he received millions of dollars from 2004 to 2022 to support a drug trade that delivered hundreds of thousands of kilos of drugs to the U.S.

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