A Rwandan court docket convicted Paul Rusesabagina, a U.S. resident immortalized by Hollywood for preserving extra than one,two hundred people today for the duration of the 1994 genocide, on a string of prices including terrorism and sentenced him to 25 years in jail, successfully ending the activist career of a single of President Paul Kagame’s sharpest critics.
The sixty seven-calendar year-outdated recipient of a U.S. Presidential Medal of Independence, who described the trial as politically inspired to silence him, seemed solemn as the presiding judge read the verdict in Kigali.
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