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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 1917 (Introduced in House) — To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes. · Sec. 11

Sec. 11. Statement of policy calling for release of Alan Phillip Gross

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Congress finds the following: The Government of Cuba has signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. On November 23, 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention published Opinion No. 69/2012 stating The imprisonment of Mr. Alan Phillip Gross by the justice system of the Republic of Cuba is arbitrary. . It shall be the policy of the United States to— call for the immediate and unconditional release of United States citizen Alan Phillip Gross; and urge the Government of Cuba in the meantime to provide all appropriate diagnostic and medical treatment to address the full range of medical issues facing Mr.
Gross and to allow him to choose a doctor to provide him with an independent medical assessment.
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