The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film 'Hotel Rwanda,” is appealing for Biden to advocate for her father’s release.
"Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina is seen during a court proceeding in October 2020. Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images
His family says he's being persecuted for criticizing the regime of current Rwanda leader, President Paul Kagame.While a date hasn't been set, Castro's confident the resolution will be brought to the House floor for a vote — and deliver momentum to the cause. "We're going to push, also, allies around the world to condemn the action in the same way, because no nation has any interest in seeing their citizens or their residents being abducted and taken in this way."told Axios that if she could tell Biden one thing, she'd ask him to draw his own sense of empathy.
Kanimba birth parents were murdered in the Rwandan genocide, and she and her sister were adopted by Rusesabagina after being found in a refugee camp.Rusesabagina gained worldwide fame as the person depicted in the 2004 film depicting his efforts to save the lives of his family and more than 1,000 other refugees from genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
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