Cuba’s highest court on Friday upheld a 15-year prison sentence for Alan Gross, an American contractor charged with crimes against the Cuban state for distributing satellite telephone equipment to Jewish groups in Havana.Cuba’s highest court on Friday upheld a 15-year prison sentence for Alan Gross, an American contractor charged with crimes against the Cuban state for distributing satellite telephone equipment to Jewish groups in Havana.The ruling leaves Mr. Gross, 62, without another opportunity for appeal. He has already spent a year and a half in a Cuban prison, bruising relations with the United States, which has requested his release. Mr. Gross’s lawyers say his only hope now is clemency.
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