WASHINGTON: US contractor Alan Gross ended an eight-day hunger strike Friday to press for his release from prison in Cuba.
Gross moved to end his protest after a telephone conversation with his mother, who will turn 92 year old on Tuesday, according to defence attorney Scott Gilbert.
"My protest fast is suspended as of today," Gross said in a statement dictated from his Havana prison to Gilbert.
But he warned that "there will be further protests to come," without specifying what those might be.
"There will be no cause for further intense protest when both governments show more concern for human beings and less malice and derision toward each other," the statement added.
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