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List of honorary citizens of Paris
Among the recipients of the
honorary citizenship
of
Paris
are:
Íngrid Betancourt
- Colombian politician who was kidnapped
in 2001
.
Gilad Shalit
-
Israeli soldier
who was kidnapped in 2006 by
Palestinian militants
and held by
Hamas
.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
-
African-American
who was convicted and
sentenced to death
for the 1981 murder of
police officer
Daniel Faulkner
. Before his arrest he was a
Black Panther Party
activist and journalist.
Raoni Metuktire
- chief of the
Kayapo people
, which live in
the Amazon rainforest
on the territory of Brazil.
Aung San Suu Kyi
- Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the
National League for Democracy
in Burma.
Taslima Nasrin
- Bangladeshi author and
human rights
campaigner.
Charlie Hebdo
- French satirical
weekly newspaper
, whose employees were killed during
the Islamist terrorist attack
on
7 January 2015
.
Oleg Sentsov
-
Ukrainian
filmmaker who is serving a 20-year
prison sentence
in
Russia
since 2015.
Winston Churchill
-
British prime minister
during WWII
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
-
President of Brazil
between 2003 and 2010, polemically convicted of
money laundering
and passive corruption.