Rusesabagina

With his hands and legs trussed up and his mouth gagged, Rwanda’s most prominent dissident was relieved when after two days in detention, his blindfold was finally taken off.Standing in front of him, blocking the blinding light, were two…

Issued on: 30/03/2023 - 07:47 Outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film…

<!-- -->US President Joe Biden had earlier welcomed Paul Rusesabagina's release.Washington: Outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film…

An ailing Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie “Hotel Rwanda", was released late Friday and will return to the United States after the Kigali  government commuted a sentence against the outspoken critic of President Paul…

Issued on: 25/03/2023 - 07:34 Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide were portrayed in hit Hollywood film…

BOYCOTT TRIAL Rusesabagina, 68, was sentenced in September 2021. He denied the charges and boycotted the trial, which he and his supporters called a political sham. He also said he had been kidnapped from Dubai in 2019 and returned to…

Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda for saving hundreds of countrymen from genocide but was convicted of terrorism offences years later in a widely criticized…

Issued on: 24/03/2023 - 15:56 Rwanda said on Friday it has commuted the 25-year jail sentence against ailing "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina, a fiercely outspoken…

WASHINGTON: The United States has determined that Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda sheltering hundreds of people during the African nation's 1994 genocide, has been "wrongfully detained", the State Department said on…

The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda was convicted of terrorism offences Monday and sentenced to 25 years in prison in a trial that human rights watchdogs and other critics of Rwanda's repressive government have described as an act of…