Washington: Paul Rusesabagina, the ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero, recounts the ‘hell’ of his detention

In Washington, Paul Rusesabagina told the National Endowment for Democracy about his abduction in Rwanda on August 27, 2020, and his detention. He says he was bound, taken to a “safe house” where he was tortured, and then held in solitary confinement for two years and seven months. He recounts being allowed just one monitored five-minute call each week with his wife, using coded language to communicate. The former director of the Hôtel des Mille Collines says he sheltered 1,268 people during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi before going into exile in 1996.