Rusesabagina was sentenced in September 2021 over his ties to an organization opposed to the rule of Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the Hollywood film “Hotel Rwanda” and is serving a 25-year sentence in Rwanda on terrorism charges, will be released on Saturday, a Rwanda government source said on Friday.
Rusesabagina was sentenced in September 2021 over his ties to an organization opposed to Kagame’s rule. He denied all the charges and refused to take part in the trial that he and his supporters called a political sham.Washington designated him as “wrongly detained”, partly because of what it called the lack of fair trial guarantees.
Rusesabagina, a vocal critic of Kagame, acknowledged having a leadership role in the opposition group, the Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change , but denied responsibility for attacks carried out on Rwanda by its armed wing, the Forces for National Liberation .“I regret not taking more care to ensure that members of the MRCD coalition fully adhered to the principles of non violence,” Rusesabagina wrote in an October 14 letter to Kagame seeking clemency, which was seen by Reuters.
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