Cuba sentences Alan Gross to 15 years in prison...

He distributed laptops and cell phone to the Jewish community in Cuba...

Cuba on Saturday sentenced US contractor Alan Gross to 15 years prison for distributing laptops and cellular phones to the island's Jewish community -- a move Washington decried as "another injustice."

Cuba's Popular Provincial Tribunal found Gross responsible for "acts against the independence or territorial integrity" of the country, according to a statement read on state-run television news.

Gross, 61, was working under contract for the US State Department when he was arrested in late 2009 for distributing the electronic devices to members of the communist-run island's small Jewish community.