AP. HAVANA – Members of a visiting U.S. delegation have met with a jailed U.S. contractor and report that he has lost a lot of weight in captivity but is otherwise doing well. Sarah Stephens is head of the Center for Democracy in the Americas. She says delegates met with Alan Gross, of Maryland, for two hours Thursday morning.">AP. HAVANA – Members of a visiting U.S. delegation have met with a jailed U.S. contractor and report that he has lost a lot of weight in captivity but is otherwise doing well. Sarah Stephens is head of the Center for Democracy in the Americas. She says delegates met with Alan Gross, of Maryland, for two hours Thursday morning.">

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US delegation meets with American jailed in Cuba

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  • 06 / 10 / 2011

AP. HAVANA – Members of a visiting U.S. delegation have met with a jailed U.S. contractor and report that he has lost a lot of weight in captivity but is otherwise doing well.

Sarah Stephens is head of the Center for Democracy in the Americas. She says delegates met with Alan Gross, of Maryland, for two hours Thursday morning.

Alan Gross was working on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested in December 2009.

He was sentenced to 15 years after being convicted of bringing communications equipment into Cuba illegally.

Gross has said he was working to improve Internet communications for Cuba's Jewish community, though Jewish leaders denied having much to do with him. U.S. officials say relations with Havana cannot improve while he remains in jail.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110609/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_detained_a...

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