The first four days of Paul recessive began his imprisonment were some of the darkest days of his life.

He was kept in isolation.

Interrogators wanted him to confess to involvement in terrorism.

And he says he was tortured.

On the fourth day, Paul was brought to a police station in Kigali, where a Rwandan official read out the charges against him.

He has been subject of an international arrest warrant, wanted to answer charges of serious crime,

including terrorism, financing terrorism and related offenses against innocent Rwandan.

For Paul's family members, it was a shock, but not just for them, also for people around the world who knew

something about Rwanda. Repressive regimes routinely target dissidents. That's par for the

course. But Paul was this human rights celebrity, and he was a permanent resident in the

United States. I remember seeing the headlines that he had been arrested and the sort of bravado of the Rwandan government of so openly kidnapping someone with such a high profile and someone who enjoyed the support of the US government.

It seemed like a very surprising move.

That's Kate Gibson.

She's an international criminal lawyer based in Geneva,

who knows quite a lot about Rwanda's legal system.

I've been working on cases in and around the Rwandan genocide

since 2005 when I started appearing on behalf of

accused at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

And I've spent a lot of my professional career working in Rwanda and assisting on cases,

training judges and lawyers in relation to these cases, which

has been this sort of incredible privilege. Paul's family began almost immediately talking to a

lawyer in the United States about his situation, an expert in international law. But that

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