Paris Names Abu-Jamal an Honorary Citizen
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The Paris city council has named U.S. death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted for the 1981 slaying of a police officer, as an honorary citizen of Paris.
The show of solidarity with Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and journalist, came in a vote Tuesday.
Celebrities, death penalty opponents and foreign politicians have rallied to Abu-Jamal’s cause, calling him a political prisoner and saying he was railroaded by a racist judicial system.
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