A Rwandan appeals court on Monday upheld a 25-year jail sentence for Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie 'Hotel Rwanda' sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide, rejecting a bid to extend it to life in prison.
A Rwandan appeals court on Monday upheld a 25-year jail sentence for Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide, rejecting a bid to extend it to life in prison.
He has denied all the charges and refused to take part in the trial, which he and his supporters denounced as a politically motivated sham. Prosecutors in February called the existing sentence too lenient, given the gravity of the charges and the impact of the alleged crimes."The trial should have never happened in the first place. My father was kidnapped and tortured. Everything that happened afterwards is theater," Rusesabagina's daughter, Carine Kanimba, told Reuters.
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