Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the 2004 Hollywood film “Hotel Rwanda,” will spend time at Brooke Army Medical Center, where he’ll be evaluated after spending more than two years in captivity.
lambasted by the European Union for its human rights abuses, Rusesabagina, 68, was released last weekend and landed Wednesday afternoon at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. From there, he was to enter Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Rusesabagina, who inspired the 2004 movie"Hotel Rwanda" and lives in San Antonio, will undergo a series of medical and psychological evaluations after having been held since late 2020 in a Kigali prison, where he was denied basic medical care. The guards brought the business suit he wore when he was kidnapped in August 2020 by order of the Rwandan government and told him to put it on. He removed his pale pink prison uniform and left his cell.
The story of the ethnic violence in Rwanda, and Rusesabagina’s efforts to save lives, became familiar to many in the United States and aboard after actor Don Cheadle played him in"Hotel Rwanda." Rusesabagina was kidnapped in August 2020, arrested in Dubai and spirited to Rwanda, where he was falsely charged with terrorism, arson and murder. He was tortured for four days before his family knew he had been arrested. A Rwandan court sentenced him to 25 years in prison in September 2021 on charges the European Union said were “marred by numerous violations of his fair-trial rights.”
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