Cuba’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in March for crimes against the communist state.
Cuban authorities arrested Gross in December 2009 for bringing communications equipment into the country.
Gross was working for a private firm that was contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was accused of distributing Internet equipment and satellite phones to Cuban dissident groups. Gross said he was trying to improve Internet access for the island’s small Jewish community and his actions were not intended to be a threat against the Cuban government.
The U.S. government has called for his release. The White House has described the sentence as “another injustice.”
His family has appealed on humanitarian grounds for the 62-year-old contractor to be returned home.
(Source: Voice Of America)
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Why was there no kinus hisorirus on his behalf? Why haven’t the askanim banned together? Where is the call for pidyon shevuyim? Did I miss something here, or is this an open expression of the reason for our long and seemingly endless exile?
ANOTHER INJUSTICE???????How funny for the American gvmt to say injustice, While were on the topic of injustice lets talk about about Yonaton Pollard pal.
I don’t see where his being Jewish has anything to do with the matter.