Prosecutors had been searching for life imprisonment for the ‘Lodge Rwanda’ hero who was arrested in August 2020.
Rwanda’s Courtroom of Enchantment on Monday upheld a 25-year jail time period in opposition to “Lodge Rwanda” hero Paul Rusesabagina, who was convicted final yr on expenses of “terrorism”, rejecting a prosecution attraction to extend the penalty to life.
“Since he's a first-time offender, the court docket finds that his sentence shouldn't be elevated, as a result of the 25 years he was given is in accordance with the load of his crimes, and the court docket maintains his sentence,” stated Decide Francois Regis Rukundakuvuga.
The case has had a excessive profile since Rusesabagina, 67, was arrested in August 2020 after what he described as a kidnapping from Dubai by Rwandan authorities.
Rusesabagina labored because the supervisor of the Lodge des Mille Collines in Kigali and helped shelter Hutu and Tutsi refugees there throughout the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
He was accused of supporting an armed wing of his opposition political platform, the Rwandan Motion for Democratic Change. The group had claimed some accountability for assaults in 2018 and 2019 within the south of the nation wherein 9 Rwandans died.
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