Carine Kanimba

Carine Kanimba is a resilient survivor of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, where her father, Paul Rusesabagina, heroically saved over 1,200 lives in his hotel, a story later immortalized in the film Hotel Rwanda. In a harrowing turn of events, her father was forcibly taken to Rwanda in 2020 and unjustly imprisoned for speaking out against the tyranny of the Rwandan president. As a dedicated global human rights advocate, Carine, alongside her family, led the #FreeRusesabagina campaign, shedding light on her father's wrongful detention and ultimately securing his release in 2023 after 2 and a half years as a political prisoner.
Carine's commitment to justice has come at a personal cost, as identified by Amnesty International and Citizen Lab through forensic analysis of the Pegasus spyware in her phone. The Rwandan Government's suspected continuous surveillance and spying on her were exposed by journalists from the Forbidden Stories collective. In 2021, Carine testified before the U.S Congress...