Clinton on US contractor in Cuba: 'We want him home'

(AFP) 

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday renewed her call for the government of Cuba to release Alan Gross, a US contractor awaiting a court verdict there on subversion charges.

"We deplore the injustice toward Alan Gross. We want him home," Clinton said in her first remarks on the case since Gross's two-day trial concluded in Havana on Saturday.

"He needs to be home with his family immediately," Clinton said in remarks to the House Appropriations Committee.

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Clinton on US contractor in Cuba: 'We want him home'