Freed ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina arrives in US
By JUAN A. LOZANO and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence returned Wednesday to the United States, where he will be reunited with his family. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed Paul Rusesabagina’s arrival back in the U.S. on Twitter. Officials said Rusesabagina was in Doha, Qatar, before arriving in the U.S. The 68-year-old, who saved hundreds of people in the country’s 1994 genocide, was convicted in Rwanda in 2021 of terrorism offenses and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
