Paul Rusesabagina

Seventy-eight years ago today, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. Approximately 1.3 million people had been murdered there. This year’s theme is “Home and Belonging:” The theme highlights the humanity of the Holocaust victims and survivors, who had their home and sense of belonging ripped from them by the perpetrators of the…

by Tom Zoellner The Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame is about to get a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and he will likely be tempted to do a very stupid thing against his own interests. …

No one is safe from spyware such as Pegasus Carine Kanimba, Paul Rusesabagina, testified yesterday before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about her experience being spied on. Rwandan President Paul Kagame used Pegasus software to listen in to her most intimate phone calls. These included calls with U.S. Congressional offices, her lawyers, her family, and her friends. …

Time is running out for Paul Rusesabagina and for any hope we can claim we care about preventing/ending genocide While we celebrated America’s Independence Day yesterday, Paul Rusesabagina spent his 676th day wrongfully detained in Rwanda. Since his kidnapping in August 2020, he has been denied his basic human and civil rights. The authorities in Kigali have kept his medicine, his lawyers, and his family from him this entire…

Your support for basic human rights seems to have some holes in it Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was my hero. She grew up in Somalia and emigrated to the United States from Kenya, where she was living in a refugee camp. That was in 1995. From there, she moved to Minnesota. She is the personification of the American Dream. …

Paul was kidnapped in August 2020. As of today, he has been unlawfully detained for 663 days. That’s 663 days he has been denied access to his heart medication (the family thinks he has suffered several small strokes as a result). That’s 663 days he has been denied his human…

I have written a decent amount about Paul Rusesabagina and the fight to bring him home. I am working on the event in the image with Two Joke Minimum and the New York Comedy Club. If you want to get tickets, go here. …

An open letter to all Members of the Commonwealth of Nations Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. We write to seek your support, and your action, to address an issue that is of profound importance to the international standing and reputation…

For anyone paying attention to what is happening in Rwanda, President Paul Kamage’s actions come as no surprise. I have been highlighting the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hotel Rwanda hero who was kidnapped, arrested, tortured, and recently sentenced to 25 years in prison. …