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A plea for Paul
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 time. Moreover, he spent most of his first year in solitary confinement (considered torture by the United Nations) and since he was put in the general population, the other prisoners have been warned against talking to him. The only real conversations he has every week are the five-minute phone calls to his family.
Think about that. Paul’s voice is usually horse and weak from not using it. The family fears he has suffered a few strokes due to his high blood pressure. As we have been saying for months, time is running short. It is good news that the Biden Administration has ruled his detention is wrongful (that means this case is treated differently and with more urgency.)
Will you contact Congress for Paul Rusesabagina?
U.S. Representatives Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and Young Kim (R-CA) introduced House Resolution 982 urging Rwandan President Paul…