Havana, Cuba – State media say prosecutors will seek a 20-year jail term for detained American contractor Alan Gross for “acts against the integrity and independence” of Cuba.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
The state-controlled website Cubadebate says that a trial date will be set shortly and that Gross’s family and U.S. diplomats will be allowed to attend.
Gross has been in jail since December 2009 on suspicion of spying. The U.S. government and his family say he was distributing satellite telephones to the island’s Jewish community. They have long called for him to be released, or at least brought to trial.
Friday’s decision to seek such a long jail term seems certain to be a major blow to U.S.-Cuban relations, which had seemed to be improving only a few weeks ago.
Can someone please provide the full name so I can have inzin his name by shemona esrah, thanks.
Cuba is a dead fish in the water waiting for America to remove it.
what would posess a jew to live in cuba
These people lived in Cuba before the revolution, and after the revolution they were not allowed to leave.
#6 , I was answering #5 when he said he doesn’t know what would posses a Jew to live in Cuba. he was doing business and bringing phones to Jews who lived in Cuba for a long time.
what were the “acts against the integrity of cuba”supposed to have been????????