Judge seals Cilia Flores's medical records in the New York case

Judge Alvin Hellerstein sealed the medical records Cilia Flores's defense filed to support her request for house arrest over heart problems, Cuba Headlines reported. The judge found that the privacy interest in her medical information outweighed public access to the record.

The ruling, dated September 10, is a further step in the request for release under conditions that Flores's defense filed days earlier in the Southern District of New York court, where she and Nicolás Maduro remain detained.