| Miklós Haraszti | |
| Order: | OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media |
| Term Start: | 10 March 2004 |
| Term End: | 10 March 2010 |
| Predecessor: | Freimut Duve |
| Birth Date: | 1945 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Jerusalem |
| Occupation: | writer, journalist, human rights advocate, university professor |
| Spouse: | Antónia Szenthe |
| Children: | 2 |
| Party: | SZDSZ |
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]