Martin Scheinin

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Finnish professor of law

PoliticiansBorn 1954 · age 71

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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.

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26 May 2011, Martin Scheinin urged Tunisia to continue reforms and investigate past human rights abuses.

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2023Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland

2003Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

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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.