{"id":47760,"date":"2023-03-25T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-president-joe-biden-lauds-rwanda-for-releasing-paul-rusesabagina\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:19:17","slug":"us-president-joe-biden-lauds-rwanda-for-releasing-paul-rusesabagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-president-joe-biden-lauds-rwanda-for-releasing-paul-rusesabagina\/","title":{"rendered":"US President lauds Rwanda for releasing Paul Rusesabagina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Presidency, White House conveyed their appreciation through a brief statement that acknowledged Rusesabagina&#8217;s release and thanked the Rwandan and Qatari governments for facilitating it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome today\u2019s release of Paul Rusesabagina by the Government of Rwanda. Paul\u2019s family is eager to welcome him back to the United States, and I share their joy at today\u2019s good news,\u201d reads the statement in part. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the Rwandan Government for making this reunion possible, and I also thank the Government of Qatar for facilitating Paul\u2019s release and return to the United States. I add my gratitude to those across the U.S. Government who have worked with the Government of Rwanda to achieve today\u2019s happy outcome,\u201d adds the statement. <\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Nyombayire, the Press Secretary for the Office of the Presidency, disclosed that Rusesabagina&#8217;s release is the outcome of a joint effort to reset the relationship between the United States and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Rusesabagina, the former President of the MRCD-FLRN terror group, was sentenced to 25 years for terrorism charges. Along with Nsabimana Callixte, alias &#8220;Sankara,&#8221; who served as the FLN&#8217;s spokesperson, and 18 others linked to the same case, he was released on presidential clemency. Rusesabagina was arrested in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47000 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fkb5btgxeaecy71-20887.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame with Joe Biden and her wife Jill last year. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has praised the Government of Rwanda for releasing Paul Rusesabagina. } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47760"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47760"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}