# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-scheinin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:48:44.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-scheinin"
name: "Martin Scheinin"
slug: "martin-scheinin"
description: "Martin Scheinin is an international law scholar who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was selected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the independent expert body monitoring states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While on the committee, he was known as a defendant of the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples and opponent of capital punishment, as well as the drafter of the committee's General Comment No. 29 on states of emergency."
tagline: "Finnish professor of law"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin-Scheinin-United-Nations-Special-Rapporteur-Terrorism-Human-Rights_(retouched).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.804896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3950910/"
    handle:    "nm3950910"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
    title: "Martin Scheinin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مارتين ستشينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
    title: "Martin Scheinin"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
    title: "Martin Scheinin"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
    title: "Martin Scheinin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scheinin"
    title: "Martin Scheinin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus_Scheinin"
    title: "Martinus Scheinin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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