Washington – The wife of U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence in Cuba on subversion charges, on Monday asked for President Barack Obama’s intercession in the case.
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“I spoke with Alan two days ago. Never have I heard him more hopeless and depressed,” Judy Gross said during a protest outside the Cuban Interests Section in Washington.
Accompanied by a score of supporters from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, she called on Americans to write letters to newspapers and politicians, including Obama, urging action on behalf of her husband.
Gross, now 62, was arrested in Havana on Dec. 3, 2009, in possession of satellite communications equipment he said he was planning to distribute among Cuba’s Jewish community.
Havana says he was illegally aiding dissidents and inciting subversion on the Communist-ruled island. In August, Cuba’s highest court upheld the 15-year jail sentence imposed on Gross in March.
Judy Gross asked for increased pressure on Congress and Obama to obtain the release of her husband on humanitarian grounds, on the eve of the second anniversary of his arrest and imprisonment.
Cuba says he sent to Florida in the wake of several terror bombings in Havana allegedly masterminded by anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative.
Nebech, Obama only works to release non Jews.
This story is so heartbreaking. I pray he will be released soon!
maybe we should discuss this issue with him at the next white house chanuka party.