Gross Injustice

Gross Injustice
By Post Editorial BoardJune 20, 2014 | 11:47pm
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It's now been almost five years since Alan Gross, the US aid worker
imprisoned in Cuba, last saw his elderly mother.
Now he'll never see her again.
Evelyn Gross died this week of lung cancer at age 92, two months after
persuading her son to end a nine-day hunger strike to protest his
continued imprisonment.
Evelyn's son is serving a 15-year term for a "crime against the state":
trying to help Cuba's Jewish community connect to the Internet. During
his mother's illness, Gross repeatedly begged Cuban authorities to be
allowed to visit her, to no avail.
Instead, the regime continues to link his freedom to that of Cuban spies
serving long sentences in American prisons.
Defending his decision to trade five Taliban commanders for a US soldier
accused of deserting his post, President Obama said America leaves no
man behind.
If true, America especially owes Alan Gross, who's rotting away in a
foreign prison for service to America while in a hostile country.
Back in 2009, President Obama famously shook Raul Castro's hand at an
international summit. We now learn the President Obama has asked the
left-wing government in Uruguay to help persuade Cuba to let Gross go
and open up to political reform.
Maybe we should try demanding the release of our man in Havana — and let
Cuba learn that holding hostage a US citizen serving his nation carries
a high price.

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