List of honorary citizens of Paris

Among the recipients of the honorary citizenship of Paris (French: citoyen d'honneur de 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.[1]
• 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.[2]
• 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 (NLD) in Burma.
• Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi author and human rights campaigner.[3]
• Charlie Hebdo - French satirical weekly newspaper, whose employees were killed during the Islamist terrorist attack on 7 January 2015.[4]
• Oleg Sentsov - Ukrainian filmmaker who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia since 2015.[5]
• Winston Churchill - British prime minister during WWII (received the honour 12 November 1944)[6]
• Luis Inácio Lula da Silva - President of Brazil between 2003 and 2010, polemically convicted of money laundering and passive corruption.[7]

References

1. Blum, Michael (December 18, 2008). "Paris gives Schalit honorary citizenship". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
2. Ceïbe, Cathy (November 13, 2006). "USA Sues Paris: From Death Row, Mumia Stirs Up More Controversy". L'Humanité. Patrick Bolland (trans.). Retrieved June 7, 2009.
3. "Paris opens door to exiled writer Taslima Nasreen" The Telegraph (London), 4 January 2009
4. Heneghan, Tom (January 9, 2015). "Paris makes Charlie Hebdo 'honorary citizen', support pours in". Reuters. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
5. Sentsov becomes honorary citizen of Paris, Interfax-Ukraine (24 September 2018)
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=mWhsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT737
7. Nikolaeva, Maya (March 2, 2020). "Paris makes former Brazil president Lula an honorary citizen". Reuters. Retrieved March 2, 2020.