On Monday, a Rwandan court sentenced Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier made famous in 2004’s Hotel Rwanda, to 25 years in prison on various terrorism charges.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, a member of both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted, “Paul Rusesabagina, who saved 1,268 lives during the Rwandan genocide, was unjustly detained in #Rwanda, and has been found guilty in a sham trial. Senator Rubio demands that Paul be set free.”