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Wednesday February 17 2021 Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina (in pink inmate s uniform) on October 2, 2020. Rwandan lawmakers have criticised the European Union Parliament for calling for his release. PHOTO | AFP
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Rwandan lawmakers have criticised the European Union Parliament for calling for the release of Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina, terming the resolution “imperialistic” and politically motivated.
During a day-long virtual plenary joint session in the Rwandan Parliament on Monday, both parliamentarians and senators said the EU parliamentary resolution interferes with Kigali’s sovereignty, promotes genocide denial and undermines the country’s independent judiciary.
The EU, they argued, has “focused on Paul Rusesabagina and ignored the victims of his crimes who also demand justice.”
NAIROBI, Kenya He was lauded as a hero during the grim days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, credited with saving the lives of more than 1,200 people he sheltered at his hotel. But when he mysteriously reappeared back in his home country late last year, he was in handcuffs. Now Paul Rusesabagina, who angered the Rwandan government with his pointed criticism from exile in the years after the blood bath, has gone on trial in a prosecution that has.
Man who inspired Hotel Rwanda tells judges he was ‘kidnapped’ 1 minute read
Kigali, Feb 17 (efe-epa).- The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda about the African nation’s 1994 genocide on Wednesday told judges at the opening session of his trial for terrorism charges that he had been “kidnapped” and that the court proceedings against him were illegal.
Paul Rusesabagina, who helped save hundreds of Tutsis while he was manager of the Hotel Des Milles Collines, was arrested under mysterious circumstances at Kigali International Airport in late August. His last contact with his family before his arrest came after he arrived in Dubai but Rwandan authorities have yet to divulge how the defendant ended up in Rwanda.
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Published: 13 Feb 2021 02:05 PM BdST
Updated: 13 Feb 2021 02:05 PM BdST
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her condolences over the death of journalist Shahin Reza Nur, the eldest son of martyred editor Sirajuddin Hossain. );
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Nur, a former journalist of the Daily Ittefaq, passed away at a hospital in Canada s Vancouver on Friday.
In a condolence message, Hasina remembered Nur s contributions to upholding the spirit and values of the Liberation War and the mass movement against war criminals with due respect.
She prayed for the salvation of his departed soul and expressed sympathy for his bereaved family members.
Nur had been living in Canada for a while with his last visit to Bangladesh coming in 2018. He was a key witness in the trial Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed s at the International Crimes Tribunal.
IEB demands ban on Al Jazeera’s broadcast
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5th February, 2021 05:25:23
The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) has demanded a ban on Al Jazeera’s broadcast, alleging that the Qatar-based media outlet is intriguing against Bangladesh as a mouthpiece of Bangladesh’s anti-liberation force Jamaat-e-Islami.
“Al-Jazeera has been distorting the history of our great liberation war for long and continuously sparking militancy,” the IEB executive committee leaders said in a statement on Friday.
They said that Al-Jazeera was not only spreading biased news in case of Bangladesh, rather, their role in this regard was well known in the international arena.