U.S. contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuban prison

[Alla hoo]

U.S. contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuban prison​

CNN) -- American contractor Alan P. Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state.

Gross, 61, was found guilty of working on a "subversive" U.S. project intended to undermine the Cuban government by distributing illegal satellite communications equipment, according to Cubadebate, a state-run website in Cuba.

The United States has said that Gross was helping the island's small Jewish community connect to the internet.

The verdict comes on the heels of last week's two-day trial in Havana. The Cuban prosecution had been asking for a 20-year sentence.

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I think cuba knows how to take tough actions against American so called "contractors"

 

[Alla hoo]

It seems cuba can punish US contractors while pakistan cannot. Speaks for itself.

 

[American Eagle]

Cuba remains a Communist dictatorship, whereas Paksitan is trying to emerge as a free world democracy, despite radical religious elements who abhore anything and everything associated with democracy.

 

[Alla hoo]

The question is who has bigger balls to do what is right without caring what Uncle thinks.