# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-mugesera
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:45.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-mugesera"
name: "Léon Mugesera"
slug: "leon-mugesera"
description: "Léon Mugesera is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada. He was deported from Canada for an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech which his critics allege was a precursor to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 2016, he was convicted of incitement to genocide and sentenced to life in prison."
tagline: "Rwandan activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera.jpg/330px-L%C3%A9on_Mugesera.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.69
  momentum:             0.7017543859649121
  historical:           6.162565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Mugesera"
    title: "Léon Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Mugesera"
    title: "León Mugesera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump