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‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina freed from prison

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 18, 2019 Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD) MRCD-UBUMWE chairman Paul Rusesabagina speaks during a press conference of the political platform MRCD-UBUMWE and the political party RDI-EWANDA RWIZA, concerning the political and security situation in Rwanda, in Brussels. - The shadowy arrest of Paul Rusesabagina on terrorism charges has thrust the polarising "Hotel Rwanda" hero back into the spotlight and underscored what analysts say are the lengths Kigali will go to silence its critics. Rusesabagina, who became the most famous Rwandan in the world after the Hollywood blockbuster, but became increasingly hardline as he called for his government's overthrow, surfaced in Kigali this week shackled and accused of financing rebels. (Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / various sources / AFP) / Belgium OUT

Fiercely outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda", has been freed from prison after more than…

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