Paul Rusesabagina (born on 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan legislator. He functioned as the supervisor of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period where it housed 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi exiles from the Interahamwe civilian army during the Rwandan decimation. These evacuees generally did not do any harm or were killed during the assaults. 

A record of Rusesabagina's activities during the slaughter was sensationalized in Terry George's film Hotel Rwanda, in which he was depicted by American entertainer Don Cheadle. The film has been the subject both of basic recognition and profound contention, especially in Rwanda. 

On the rear of recently discovered worldwide notoriety, Rusesabagina set out on a fruitful profession as a public speaker, generally visiting colleges in the United States.

He lobbies for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, which he established in 2006. He holds Belgian citizenship, and a US green card, and has homes in Brussels, Belgium, and San Antonio, Texas. 

Since leaving Rwanda in 1996, he has turned into an unmistakable pundit of Paul Kagame and the RPF government. He established the PDR-Ihumure ideological group in 2006 and is right now President of the MRCD, an unfamiliar based resistance gathering to the Rwandan government. 

On 31 August 2020, accepting he was taking a trip to Burundi from Dubai, he showed up in Kigali, where he was captured on nine charges of psychological oppression that identified with his relationship with the FLN (National Liberation Front), the furnished wing of PDR-Ihumure, who guaranteed liability regarding fear based oppressor assaults in 2018 which killed somewhere around nine individuals. 

Rusesabagina has freely communicated his help for FLN's "freedom battle" in a broadly spread video on the web. A portion of Rusesabagina's relatives is suing sanction carrier GainJet for not uncovering the genuine objective of the trip to Rusesabagina.

On 20 September 2021, he was indicted on illegal intimidation charges and allowed a long-term jail sentence.