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is a 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. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia Law School, New York. Haraszti studied philosophy and literature at Budapest University. In 1976 he co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and in 1980 became editor of the samizdat periodical Beszélö. In 1989, Haraszti participated in the Roundtable negotiations on transition to free elections. He was a member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1990–1994, and 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 .
Eurozine Articles
The decline of democracy -- the rise of dictatorship
An appeal
In a "New Year's appeal", thirteen intellectuals and public figures who opposed Hungary's communist regime in the 1970s outline their concerns about Hungary's new constitution and call on Europe to help halt a slide towards a new dictatorship. [more]
Notes on Hungary's media law package
(Updated following the agreement with the European Commission)
Hungary's media law could lead to a depoliticization of the media the likes of which exists in Russia and other post-Soviet democracies, writes the former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The alterations to the law will do little to this halt this tendency. [more]
In God's name
A new UN proposal condemning "defamation of religion" cements oppressive governments' control of free speech while still sounding compatible with the advanced multiculturalism of liberal democracies, writes Miklós Haraszti. [more]
A shifting media landscape
An interview with Miklós Haraszti
On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Miklós Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, speaks to Judith Vidal-Hall about the shifting media landscape in the post-communist countries of central and eastern Europe. [more]
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