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Miklós Haraszti | |
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Mikhail Evstafiev | |
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 | Jerusalem | 2 January 1945
Political party | SZDSZ |
Spouse | Antónia Szenthe |
Children | 2 |
Occupation | writer, journalist, human rights advocate, university professor |
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]
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]
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|
Miklós Haraszti | |
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![]() Photo by
Mikhail Evstafiev | |
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 | Jerusalem | 2 January 1945
Political party | SZDSZ |
Spouse | Antónia Szenthe |
Children | 2 |
Occupation | writer, journalist, human rights advocate, university professor |
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]
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]