Rwandan opposition figure Paul Rusesabagina has been able to talk to his family for the first time since being detained on terror charges 10 days ago.
His daughter Carine Kanimba told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he "sounded very strange".
Mr Rusesabagina is best known for his role in saving hundreds of Tutsis from the 1994 genocide, in which about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
That story was turned into the film Hotel Rwanda. But the authorities in Rwanda now dispute his version of events.
Last week, Mr Rusesabagina was flown into Rwanda from Dubai. His family say he was kidnapped, but President Paul Kagame said that that was not the case.
Ms Kanimba said her conversation with her father was "an odd call to say the least".
She said that she could tell that other people were in the room with her father and he was not able to speak freely about the case.
Neither was he able to say how he ended up in the country.
"He did say that he woke up in Rwanda," Ms Kanimba said, but he did not give any more details.
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