Rusesabagina rose to fame after a 2004 Hollywood movie, Hotel Rwanda, that depicted his heroic acts in saving Tutsis during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for the 67-year old Rwandan native who also holds Belgium citizenship and US permanent residence.
Callixte Nsabimana, aka, Sankara, one of his 20 co-accused who is former spokesperson and commander of the FLN rebels, was handed 20 years in prison, alongside seven other convicts.
