# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheick-mohamed-mkhaitir
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:29:37.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheick-mohamed-mkhaitir"
name: "Cheick Mohamed Mkhaitir"
slug: "cheick-mohamed-mkhaitir"
description: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir is a Mauritanian blogger who was a political prisoner from 2014 to 2019. He was sentenced to death after he wrote an article critical of Islam and the caste system in Mauritania, after which he became a designated prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. He now lives in exile in France due to concerns for his safety."
tagline: "Mauritanian engineer, blogger, and political prisoner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             1.956521739130435
  historical:           7.428800000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "محمد الشيخ ولد امخيطير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Ould_Cheikh_M'Kheitir"
    title: "Mohamed Ould Cheikh M'Kheitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Cheikh_Ould_Mkhaitir"
    title: "Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20961911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump