'Hotel Rwanda' hero to learn verdict in terror trialRusesabagina has been on trial in Rwanda since FebruaryKIGALI - A court is set to deliver its verdict Monday against Paul Rusesabagina, the "Hotel Rwanda" hero turned government critic who is charged with terrorism in a trial supporters say is politically motivated. He is accused of supporting a rebel group blamed for deadly gun, grenade and arson attacks in Rwanda in 2018 and 2019. Kagame has in turn rejected criticism of the case, saying Rusesabagina was in the dock not because of his fame but over the lives lost "because of his actions". According to the Hotel Rwanda Foundation, which supports him, they regard the trial as a "farce from start to finish... put in place by the Rwandan government to silence critics" and discourage "future dissent". For opposition official Victoire Ingabire, who spent six years in prison for terrorism, the verdict is not in doubt.

Source: Bangkok Post September 20, 2021 03:45 UTC