# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thulani-maseko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:21:17.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thulani-maseko"
name: "Thulani Maseko"
slug: "thulani-maseko"
description: "Thulani Rudolf Maseko was a Swazi human rights lawyer who previously served as the Secretary General of the People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO). He was imprisoned from 2014 to 2015, and declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. He launched a court challenge to King Mswati III of Eswatini in 2018 and was assassinated in 2023."
tagline: "Swazi human right lawyer and activist (1970–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Thulani_Maseko.jpg/330px-Thulani_Maseko.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-03-01"
deathDate: "2023-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             3.652173913043478
  historical:           8.553493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/maseko_r"
    handle:    "maseko_r"
sources:
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    title: "祖蘭尼·馬塞柯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Масеко, Тулани"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Maseko"
    title: "Thulani Maseko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18394296"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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