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 (NLD) in Burma. Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi author and human rights campaigner."Paris opens door to exiled writer Taslima Nasreen" The Telegraph (London), 4 January 2009 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.Sentsov becomes honorary citizen of Paris, Interfax-Ukraine (24 September 2018) Winston Churchill - British prime minister during WWII (received the honour 12 November 1944) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - President of Brazil 2003 - 2010, 2023-present.
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