The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, has boarded a plane in Qatar bound for Houston after being released from prison in Rwanda last week, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.In September 2021, Rusesabagina, a permanent resident of the United States who has lived in exile in San Antonio, Texas, for more than a decade, was sentenced to 25 years over his ties to a group opposed to Rwandan President Paul Kagame that has an armed wing.The 68-year-old, a vocal critic of Kagame, says he was lured to Rwanda in 2019 when he boarded a private plane in Dubai he believed was bound for Bujumbura, Burundi. The aircraft instead landed in Kigali, where he was arrested.
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