Castro's American Prisoner of Conscience

BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS



October 27, 2010


Judy Gross, the wife of American development worker, Alan Gross, who has been unjustly imprisoned without charges for nearly a year by the Castro regime for helping connect the island's Jewish community to the Internet, has sent a desperate plea (in the form of a letter) to Cuban dictator Raul Castro asking for her husband's release.

Needless to say, we sympathize with the Gross family, particularly as people that have experienced this type of cruelty and injustice for five decades.

Please note the following paragraph in her letter:

"To the extent his work may have offended you or your government, he and I are genuinely remorseful."

Mrs. Gross hit the nail right on the head -- not only regarding her husband's imprisonment, but of the millions of Cubans who have been harassed, imprisoned, tortured and/or executed by the Castro regime.

Alan Gross has been unjustly imprisoned for "offending" the Cuban dictator.

And that encapsulates Cuba's overall tragedy.

Unfortunately, until the Castro brother's martial law ends, and is replaced with a transparent rule of law that serves the Cuban people -- not its rulers -- no person on the island (whose last name doesn't end with Castro), whether Cuban or foreign, will ever experience justice.

We pray that day will soon come.