Imprisoned U.S. contractor Alan Gross told visitors Friday morning that he is feeling well, although his weight is down to 146 pounds, and that he fasted on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Adela Dworin, head of Cuba’s Jewish Community, and David Prinstein, president of the Patronato Synagogue, spent nearly two hours with Gross in an air-conditioned visitors’ room at Havana’s military hospital. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence for attempting to create a network of Internet users – outside of the control of the government – whose aim was regime change.
Dworin, who last saw the 63-year-old Maryland native exactly four months ago, said that his mood was optimistic, unlike back in May when, she said, he displayed “anger and frustration.”
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