A former hotel manager, portrayed as a hero in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, is to be freed from jail in Kigali. Two years ago, Paul Rusesabagina was sentenced to 25 years for terrorism by a Rwandan court in what supporters called a sham trial.
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Much of that pressure came from the United States, where he had lived since 2009. The Biden administration has said he was "wrongfully detained". It was featured in a section of journalist Philip Gourevitch's 1998 book about the genocide, but it was the 2004 Hollywood movie, where he was played by Don Cheadle, that brought him global attention.The Rwandan genocide lasted 100 days from April 1994, when 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, were slaughtered by extremists from the Hutu community.
In a 2018 video message, Mr Rusesabagina called for a regime change, saying that "the time has come for us to use any means possible to bring about change in Rwanda".
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