‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero, a Critic of President, Held in Probe
- Paul Rusesabagina is outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame
- The 66-year-old was shown handcuffed at police headquarters
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Rwandan authorities detained exiled Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager who sheltered hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide and whose story was later adopted by Hollywood, on terrorism allegations.
Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in the Oscar-nominated 2004 movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’, was shown to the media in handcuffs at the headquarters of the Rwanda Investigations Bureau on Monday. It wasn’t disclosed how Rusesabagina, who is a Belgian citizen, was arrested. One of his daughters, Anaise Kanimba, told the BBC his family had last heard of him from Dubai on Thursday.