American 拘留するd in Cuba begins hunger strike
WASHINGTON (AP) ― An American who has been 拘留するd in Cuba for more than four years after 不法に setting up Internet 接近 on the island is on a hunger strike, によれば a 声明 his lawyer 解放（する）d Tuesday.
Alan 甚だしい／１２ダース, 64, said he was 抗議するing his 治療 by the 政府s of Cuba and the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs. He told his lawyer that he ate his last solid meal on the evening of April 2.
甚だしい／１２ダース was 逮捕（する）d in Cuba in 2009 while working in the 共産主義者-run country to 始める，決める up Internet 接近 for the island's small ユダヤ人の community, 接近 that bypassed 地元の 制限s and 監視するing. At the time, 甚だしい／１２ダース was working as a subcontractor for the U.S. 政府's U.S. 機関 for International 開発, which 促進するs 僕主主義 on the island. Cuba considers USAID's programs 違法な 試みる／企てるs by the U.S. to 土台を崩す its 政府, and 甚だしい／１２ダース was tried and 宣告，判決d to 15 years in 刑務所，拘置所.
FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 とじ込み／提出する photo 供給するd by U.S. lawyer James L. Berenthal, 刑務所，拘置所d American Alan 甚だしい／１２ダース 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a photo during a visit by Rabbi Elie Abadie and Berenthal at Finlay 軍の hospital in Havana, Cuba. 甚だしい／１２ダース, a U.S. 政府 subcontractor 拘留するd in Cuba, 解放（する）d a 声明 through his lawyer Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 説 he began 急速な／放蕩なing to 抗議する his 治療 by the 政府s of Cuba and the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs. (AP Photo/James L. Berenthal, とじ込み／提出する)
Cuban 公式の／役人s 最初 （刑事）被告 甚だしい／１２ダース of 秘かに調査するing, though more 最近の 声明s have said he 始める，決める up "違法な and covert communication systems" and was 宣告，判決d for breaking Cuban 法律s. His 事例／患者 has become a sticking point in 改善するing 関係 between the two countries, which have not had formal 外交関係 since 1961.
"I am 急速な／放蕩なing to 反対する to mistruths, deceptions, and inaction by both 政府s, not only regarding their 株d 責任／義務 for my 独断的な 拘留，拘置, but also because of the 欠如（する） of any reasonable or valid 成果／努力 to 解決する this shameful ordeal. Once again, I am calling on 大統領 Obama to get 本人自身で 伴う／関わるd in ending this 引き分け so that I can return home to my wife and daughters," 甚だしい／１２ダース' 声明 read.
The Cuban 政府 did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment.
甚だしい／１２ダース' hunger strike comes as U.S. and Cuban 公式の／役人s have questioned a different USAID program on the island. Last week, an Associated 圧力（をかける） 調査 明らかにする／漏らすd that USAID 内密に created a "Cuban Twitter" communications 網状組織 to 動かす 不安 on the island. The social medi a 網状組織, called ZunZuneo, was 公然と 開始する，打ち上げるd すぐに after 甚だしい／１２ダース was 逮捕（する）d. It reached at least 40,000 加入者s before 存在 shut 負かす／撃墜する in 2012 when a 政府 認める ended.
甚だしい／１２ダース' lawyer, Scott Gilbert, said Tuesday afternoon after speaking with his （弁護士の）依頼人 that learning about the ZunZuneo story was the "final straw" that 誘発するd 甚だしい／１２ダース' hunger strike. Gilbert, who 非難するd USAID for 開始する，打ち上げるing the ZunZuneo program after his （弁護士の）依頼人 was 逮捕（する）d, said 甚だしい／１２ダース is not eating but is drinking water. He has lost about 10 続けざまに猛撃するs so far, Gilbert said, though 全体にわたる he has lost more than 100 続けざまに猛撃するs while in 刑務所，拘置所.
Gilbert said Tuesday afternoon that he asked his （弁護士の）依頼人 how long he 計画（する）s to continue not eating and was told "as long as it takes."
USAID's 最高の，を越す 公式の／役人, Rajiv Shah, 証言するd Tuesday before a 上院 小委員会. 答える／応じるing to questions from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who called the ZunZuneo program a "cockamamie idea," Shah said it was "絶対 not" covert. Shah said creating 壇・綱領・公約s to 改善する communication in Cuba and どこかよそで is a "核心 part" of what USAID does.
Shah called 甚だしい／１２ダース' 拘留，拘置 "wrong" but said "the 責任／義務 for his 拘留，拘置 残り／休憩（する）s with Cuban 当局."
甚だしい／１２ダース' wife, Judy 甚だしい／１２ダース, wrote Tuesday that she was "worried sick" about her husband's health and she doesn't think "he can 生き残る much more of this."
甚だしい／１２ダース lived in Maryland before his 逮捕（する）. His wife now lives in Washington.
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writer Peter Orsi 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測 from Havana.
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