The Courtroom for Crimes against State Security of the People’s Provincial Court of Havana sentenced US citizen Alan Phillip Gross on Friday to 15 years in
prison for the crime of '' Acts against the Independence or the Territorial Integrity of the State.''

The Court, to make that decision, took into account the large amount of documentary evidence and those provided by witnesses and experts presented during the oral trial, particularly the ones by the prosecutor, which showed the direct participation of the US contractor in a subversive project of the US government to try to destroy the Revolution, by way of the use of info-communication systems out of the control of the authorities, in order to promote destabilizing plans against various social sectors.

During the hearing of the oral trial, the defendant admitted having been used and manipulated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), subordinate to the Department of State and which finances the DAI Contracting Company, on behalf of which Gross came to Cuba.

Against this sentence, Alan Phillip Gross will be able to lodge a cassation appeal at the Courtroom for Crimes against State Security of the People’s Supreme Court.

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