Paul Rusesabagina, the 'Hotel Rwanda' hero turned government critic, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of terrorism
Rusesabagina, who emerged as a prominent critic of President Paul Kagame, was arrested in August 2020 when a plane he believed was bound for Burundi landed instead in the Rwandan capital Kigali.
Earlier this month, Kagame had dismissed criticism of the case, saying Rusesabagina was in the dock not because of his fame but over the lives lost "because of his actions". The United States – which awarded Rusesabagina its Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 – along with the European Parliament and Belgium were among those to raise concerns about his transfer to Rwanda and the fairness of his trial.
A decade later the American actor Don Cheadle played Rusesabagina, a moderate Hutu, in the Oscar-nominated blockbuster that brought his story to an international audience.
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