Miklós Haraszti (born 2 January 1945, Jerusalem) is a Hungarian politician, writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor. He served the maximum of two terms as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2004 to 2010.^[1] Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the School of International & Public Affairs of Columbia Law School, New York^[2] and visiting professor at the Central European University (CEU), Department of Public Policy.^[3]

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Miklós Haraszti
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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
In office 10 March 2004 – 10 March 2010
Preceded by	Freimut Duve
Succeeded by	Dunja Mijatovic
Personal details
Born	(1945-01-02) 2 January 1945 (age 79) Jerusalem
Political party	SZDSZ
Spouse	Antónia Szenthe
Children	2
Occupation	writer, journalist, human rights advocate, university professor

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Haraszti studied philosophy and literature at Budapest University. During the late 1960s he belonged to an underground left-wing student organization that opposed the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party and was in contact with the Chinese embassy in Budapest.^[4] In 1976 he co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and in 1980 he became editor of the samizdat periodical Beszélő.

In 1989, Haraszti participated in the "roundtable" negotiations on transition to free elections. A member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1990 to 1994, he then moved on to lecture on democratization and media politics at numerous universities.

Haraszti's books include A Worker in a Worker's State and The Velvet Prison, both of which have been translated into several languages.

In 2012, Haraszti was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.^[5]

He is married. His wife is Antónia Szenthe. They have two daughters.^[6]