"Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina returns to US after detainment abroad"

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"Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina returns to US after detainment abroad"
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Paul Rusesabagina, the man credited with saving more than 1,000 people during Rwanda's 1994 genocide and whose life was dramatized in the movie Hotel Rwanda, has returned home to San Antonio after being imprisoned in Rwanda for 900 days. He was convicted on terrorism charges for his connections to groups opposed to the Rwandan government, but his trial was widely criticized by international monitors. His family worked with the Biden administration and San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro to secure his release.

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