Among the recipients of the honorary citizenship of Paris (French: citoyen d'honneur de Paris) are:
Íngrid Betancourt - a Colombian politician who was kidnapped in 2001.
Gilad Shalit - an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped in 2006 by Palestinian militants and held by Hamas.
Mumia Abu-Jamal - an 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 - a chief of the Kayapo people, which live in the Amazon rainforest on the territory of Brazil.
Aung San Suu Kyi - A Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma.
Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi author and human rights campaigner.
Charlie Hebdo - a French satirical weekly newspaper, whose employees were killed during the Islamist terrorist attack on 7 January 2015.
