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Patrick Leahy: “His incarceration is offensive and completely inappropriate, and entirely the responsibility of the Cuban authorities…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2014
His incarceration is offensive and completely inappropriate, and entirely the responsibility of the Cuban authorities that are holding him for simply carrying out an effort to help people gain access to the Internet.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy criticizes the Cuban government's treatment of Alan Gross.

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