Paul Rusesabagina

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Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan former hotel manager and humanitarian best known for sheltering and saving over a thousand people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an act later depicted in the film "Hotel Rwanda."

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Tatiana Rusesabagina 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Rwandan person
hotel manager
human
humanitarian
arrestedBy Rwandan authorities
authorOf An Ordinary Man NERFINISHED
awardReceived Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity NERFINISHED
Lantos Human Rights Prize NERFINISHED
National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award NERFINISHED
Pax Christi International Peace Award NERFINISHED
Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED
Wallenberg Medal NERFINISHED
charge terrorism-related offenses in Rwanda
countryOfCitizenship Belgium
Rwanda NERFINISHED
criticizedBy Rwandan government NERFINISHED
dateOfArrest 2020-08
dateOfBirth 1954-06-15
dateOfConviction 2021-09
dateOfPublication 2006
dateOfRelease 2023-03
employer Hotel des Diplomates NERFINISHED
Hôtel des Mille Collines NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Hutu NERFINISHED
familyName Rusesabagina NERFINISHED
genreOfWork memoir
givenName Paul
hasCause genocide prevention
human rights advocacy
knownFor Being the real-life inspiration for the film "Hotel Rwanda"
Providing shelter to Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees
Saving more than 1,000 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide
languageSpoken English
French
Kinyarwanda NERFINISHED
mannerOfRelease presidential commutation of sentence
movement Rwandan opposition politics
name Paul Rusesabagina NERFINISHED
notableWork Sheltering refugees at Hôtel des Mille Collines during the 1994 Rwandan genocide
numberOfChildren 6
occupation hotel manager
humanitarian
political activist
participantIn Rwandan genocide
placeOfArrest Kigali, Rwanda NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Murama-Gitarama, Rwanda-Urundi NERFINISHED
portrayedBy Don Cheadle NERFINISHED
positionHeld founder of the PDR-Ihumure party
publisherOfWork Viking Press NERFINISHED
religion Christianity
residence Belgium NERFINISHED
United States of America
roleInEvent protected refugees at Hôtel des Mille Collines NERFINISHED
sentence 25 years in prison
spouse Tatiana Rusesabagina NERFINISHED
subjectOf Hotel Rwanda NERFINISHED
supportedBy international human rights organizations

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Wallenberg Medal hasRecipient Paul Rusesabagina
Don Cheadle portrayed Paul Rusesabagina
Sophie Okonedo playedCharacter Paul Rusesabagina
this entity surface form: Tatiana Rusesabagina
Hotel Rwanda characterRole Paul Rusesabagina