Cuba rejects appeal of U.S. contractor Alan Gross
Cuba's top court has rejected the final appeal of a U.S. government contractor sentenced to 15 years in prison, despite appeals from top American officials for his release.
Alan P. Gross, of Potomac, Md., has been held since December 2009 for distributing satellite communications equipment to Cuba's Jewish community. He was sentenced in March for his work, which Cuban authorities claimed was aimed at undermining the island's Communist government.
Gross's attorneys had petitioned Cuba's Supreme Court to reduce or dismiss the sentence, and the State Department called Gross's continued detention an obstacle to improved relations between Cuba and the United States. Still, the court denied Gross's appeal in a "definitive resolution," according to an article posted Friday to the state-run Web site Cubadebate.
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