New York – The head of a U.S. religious group has asked Cuban authorities for access to an American man sentenced to 15 years in prison for bringing restricted communications equipment to the island.
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Michael Kinnamon is general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Kinnamon says he is waiting to hear whether permission will be granted to visit Maryland man Alan Gross.
Gross was arrested nearly two years ago while working on a democracy-building project financed by the U.S. government.
Kinnamon spoke Tuesday in Havana. He is heading up a 15-member delegation of clerics who are in Cuba through Friday.
The New-York based National Council of Churches is an umbrella group of U.S. Protestant and Orthodox Christian denominations.