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Instagram Saturday. “We must do everything in our power to bring him and all Americans home.”Gershkovich, 31, who works at the Journal’s Moscow bureau, was detained on a reporting trip last week after Russia’s Federal Security Bureau accused him of trying to obtain classified information, saying they caught the U.S.

The Associated Press on Friday that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. Rusesabagina, a U.S.

Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroics during the Rwandan genocide were depicted in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, was convicted of terror-related charges Monday in Kigali.

The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving hundreds of his countrymen from genocide was convicted of terrorism offenses Monday and sentenced to 25 years at a trial that human rights watchdogs and other critics of Rwanda’s repressive government have described as an act of retaliation.

George and Amal Clooney vow to watch over Rwandan activist Paul Rusesabagina during his upcoming trial.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmThrough the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, George and Amal Clooney have made a pledge to closely monitor the upcoming trial of Paul Rusesabagina in Rwanda, as part of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative. Rusesabagina’s actions to save lives during the Rwandan genocide were dramatized in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda.

KIGALI, Rwanda -- Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday.A well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, Rusesabagina had been living outside Rwanda since 1996 and police did not say where he was apprehended.