Marking 4 years, family urges release of Cuba captive Alan Gross
Source: McClatchy
WASHINGTON — Moments after Judy Gross ended a phone call with her husband on the night before he planned to return home from Cuba in 2009, Cuban officials entered his hotel room and arrested him.
A Cuban court sentenced 64-year-old Alan Gross to 15 years in prison after deciding that the work he’d been sent to do there on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development constituted an attempt to undermine the Cuban government.
Tuesday, on the four-year anniversary of her husband’s arrest, Judy Gross joined family, friends and supporters for a vigil across from the White House to urge President Barack Obama to personally intervene to secure his return home.
Gross read a letter her husband wrote last week from his prison cell, in which he said, “I am only one man, but I am a citizen of the greatest country on Earth, a country I was serving in my work in Cuba, and I must believe – I do believe – that my country will not leave me behind.”
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the permanent release of all the Cuban Five.
