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Newsmaker: Jared Genser and Judy Gross WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The following is being released by National Press Club: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) DATE: Friday, Nov. 30TIME: 10 a.m. PLACE: National Press Club, 529 14(th) St. NW, Washington, DC, Zenger Room Alan Gross is a U.S. Agency for International Development subcontractor who was imprisoned in Cuba three years ago as he implemented a program to connect the Jewish...

WASHINGTON, N.J., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alan Phillip Gross is an American professional who was arrested in 2009 in Cuba after being accused of providing better access to the Internet to three Cuban Jewish communities. Last year the Castro brothers found him guilty of participating in a "subversive project of the U.S. government that aimed to destroy the revolution" and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. He has been languishing behind bars and has lost more than 100 pounds...