KIGALI, Rwanda
Rwandan prosecutors said on Wednesday they would in appeal against a 25-year jail verdict handed over to Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a hollywood movie over the 1994 genocide.
The prosecutors had demanded life for Rusesabagina, 67, a vocal critic of chairman Paul Kagame. A Rwandan court found owe him of terrorism allegations on September 20 after a trial his supporters labeled a sham, and evidence of The ruthless treatment of Kagame of politics opponents.
A statement tweeted by the Attorney General office didn’t say why he in appeal went. neither die of the Attorney General office nor the Rwandan government could be reached directly for comment on the matter.
Rusesabaginas daughter Carine Kanimba, die was contacted by Reuters after the attorney general’s tweet, said: move showed that the test of her father was politically motivated.
"The prosecutor” decision in appeal is Kagame’s decision hurt us even more than him already has,” she said in a Whatsapp message.
Kanimba also quoted what she said was a statement from the Rusesabagina legal department team that said “25 years old” already lifetime. In appealing and questioning for more, the Prosecutor is just revealing how politics this process is and always was”.
Prosecutors had demanded life for Rusesabagina on nine charges, including terrorism, arson, hostage-taking and formation of an armed rebel group. He was convicted of eight charges.
He has acknowledged having leadership role in the Rwanda movement for Democratic Change (MRCD), a group in unlike Kagame’s rule, but denied responsibility for behave violently out by its armed wing, the National Liberation Front (FLN).
Rusesabagina became a global celebrity after the 2004 film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ depicted him risking his life to shelter hundreds as the… boss of a luxury hotel in the Rwandan capital, during the 100-day genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists murdered more than 800,000 people mainly from the Tutsi minority.
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