Harasti, Miklos

His father, a Budapest watchmaker, fled from forced labor in 1939, which he, as a Jew, threatened in Khortist Hungary, to mandated Palestine. Mother, originally from the Transcarpathian city of Mukachevo , also appeared there in 1941. Miklos Haraszti himself was born on January 2, 1945 in Jerusalem ^{[1] [2]} . In 1948, the family returned to Hungary.

From 1964 to 1967, and from 1968 to 1970, he studied Hungarian philology and philosophy at the Budapest University of Lorand Ötvös ^{[1] [2]} . Published since 1963, wrote poems, songs and articles. In 1969, a collection of his translations, “Poets, Songs, Revolutions,” was released.

In 1969-1970 he participated in an illegal student left-wing radical organization (the authorities defined it as Maoist and anarchist; Gashpar Miklos Tamas describes the then views of Haraszti as gavarist ), for which he was placed under police supervision in 1970. A request for an end to the persecution of Haraszti and his like-minded György Dalosh to Janos Kadar was addressed by the Marxist philosopher György Lukács . In 1970-1971 he worked as a milling machine operator at the Ganz-MAVAG machine-building plant and the Krasnaya Zvezda Tractor Plant.

In 1976, he was one of the founders of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement. ^{[1] [2]}

From 1981 to 1989, he was the editor of the Beselö periodical Samizdat magazine . ^{[1] [2]}

In 1989, he participated in negotiations on free elections. He was among the founders of the Alliance of Free Democrats . Introducing him, from 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament ^{[1] [2]} .

in the 2000s he periodically appeared in the Hungarian press, including in the historical magazines Historia and Rubicon with materials about the Kadarov era.

On March 9, 2004, he was appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media , replacing Freimut Duve in this post ^[1] . March 8, 2007 appointed for a second term ^[2] . On March 10, 2010, his term of office expired, Dunya Miyatovich became his successor. ^[3] .

In 2012, he was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus ^[4] .

Professor at Columbia Law University (New York). Author of the books “Worker in the State of Workers” and “Velvet Prison”, translated into foreign languages.

• Költők, dalok, forradalmak ( 1965 )
• Darabbér (first published in Berlin in 1975 , reprinted in Paris in 1980 )
• L'Artist d'Etat ( Paris , 1983 ) ^[1]
• A cenzúra esztétikája ( 1986 )
• The Velvet Prison ( New York , 1987 ) ^[1]
• Kései bevezetés a Kádár-rendszerbe ( 1980 , published in 1990 )

• Press portrait of Miklos Haraszti on Yandex.News
• Interview with Miklos Haraszti in the U-Turn program at Ekho Moskvy radio station, May 29, 2007
• Interview with Miklos Haraszti in the U-Turn program on Ekho Moskvy radio station, October 8, 2009