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MEPs raise outcry on jailed 'Hotel Rwanda' hero
By EUobserver
Rwanda's conviction of politician Paul Rusesabagina, who is known as a genocide-era hero from the film Hotel Rwanda "was "exemplary of the human rights violations in Rwanda" and should be overturned, 660 MEPs said in a non-binding resolution Thursday. Rusesabagina, now a Belgian and US national, was kidnapped on a flight to Burundi last year, forced to confess (MEPs said), and sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offences last month.