{"id":1361881,"date":"2023-11-30T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/30\/rwandan-courts-will-not-protect-refugees-rights-say-daughters-of-genocide-hero"},"modified":"2023-11-30T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T06:00:42","slug":"rwandan-courts-will-not-protect-refugees-rights-say-daughters-of-genocide-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/30\/rwandan-courts-will-not-protect-refugees-rights-say-daughters-of-genocide-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan courts will not protect refugees\u2019 rights, say daughters of genocide hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Paul Rusesabagina, who campaigned to have him freed from jail, say country\u2019s justice system is a \u2018tool to oppress people\u2019<\/p><p>The Rwandan legal system is incapable of protecting refugees sent from the UK, according to the daughters of Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda.<\/p><p>Carine and Ana\u00efse Kanimba campaigned for more than two years to secure the release of their father, who was freed from a Kigali jail after three years of incarceration earlier this year, and they have detailed first-hand knowledge of the true nature of the Rwandan legal system.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/30\/rwandan-courts-will-not-protect-refugees-rights-say-daughters-of-genocide-hero\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/30\/rwandan-courts-will-not-protect-refugees-rights-say-daughters-of-genocide-hero\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Paul Rusesabagina, who campaigned to have him freed from jail, say country\u2019s justice system is a \u2018tool to oppress people\u2019The Rwandan legal system is incapable of protecting refugees sent from the UK, according to the daughters of Paul Rusesab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,6,3055,640,3254,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361882,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361881\/revisions\/1361882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}