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BUDAPEST — Hungary’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt
legislation that would increase sentences for sex crimes against
children, but critics say the law is being used to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community ahead of crunch elections for Prime
Minister Viktor Orban next year.

Last-minute changes to the bill, which was prompted by public
outrage after a series of sex scandals involving governing party and
government officials, included restrictions against showing or “popularizing” homosexuality and content that promotes a gender that diverges from the one assigned at birth.

Mr. Orban’s critics say the changes were made to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community in an effort to rally support from his conservative base and shift the focus away from the failures of his administration ahead of elections in 2022.

The new rules, unexpectedly added to the bill by government-aligned
lawmakers last week, require the labeling of all content that might
fall into that category of “not recommended for those under 18 years
of age.” Such content would be restricted for media like television
to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would
restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.
The bill would also create a public database of sex offenders.

Mr. Orban has increasingly presented himself as a protector of
traditional Christian values, although that image has been
undermined somewhat by the sex scandals involving officials and
allies of his Fidesz party over the past few years.

Last year, a Hungarian diplomat in Peru was convicted of possession
of child pornography and handed an $1,800 fine and a suspended
prison sentence after being brought home and charged in Hungary.
That case, which sparked the public pressure on the legislature to
enact stricter sentencing for pedophilia crimes, was just one in a
series of scandals that has undermined public faith in Mr. Orban’s government.

Before Hungary’s 2019 municipal elections, a series of video clips
released online by an anonymous source showed a prominent Fidesz
mayor participating in an orgy on a yacht.

The following year a Fidesz lawmaker in Brussels was detained after
trying to escape out of a window and down a drainpipe when the
police raided a party being held in violation of Covid restrictions
that Belgian news media described as an all-male orgy.

The last-minute additions to the legislation were criticized by
human rights groups, including the Foundation for Rainbow Families,
which promotes legal equality for all Hungarian families with
children.

“Fidesz does this to take the public conversation away from major
happenings in the country,” said Krisztian Rozsa, a psychologist and
board member with the foundation, citing corruption and the
government’s responses to the pedophilia scandal and the coronavirus pandemic.

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BUDAPEST — Hungary’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt
legislation that would increase sentences for sex crimes against
children, but critics say the law is being used to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community ahead of crunch elections for Prime
Minister Viktor Orban next year.

Last-minute changes to the bill, which was prompted by public
outrage after a series of sex scandals involving governing party and
government officials, included restrictions against showing or “popularizing” homosexuality and content that promotes a gender that diverges from the one assigned at birth.

Mr. Orban’s critics say the changes were made to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community in an effort to rally support from his conservative base and shift the focus away from the failures of his administration ahead of elections in 2022.

The new rules, unexpectedly added to the bill by government-aligned
lawmakers last week, require the labeling of all content that might
fall into that category of “not recommended for those under 18 years
of age.” Such content would be restricted for media like television
to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would
restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.
The bill would also create a public database of sex offenders.

Mr. Orban has increasingly presented himself as a protector of
traditional Christian values, although that image has been
undermined somewhat by the sex scandals involving officials and
allies of his Fidesz party over the past few years.

Last year, a Hungarian diplomat in Peru was convicted of possession
of child pornography and handed an $1,800 fine and a suspended
prison sentence after being brought home and charged in Hungary.
That case, which sparked the public pressure on the legislature to
enact stricter sentencing for pedophilia crimes, was just one in a
series of scandals that has undermined public faith in Mr. Orban’s government.

Before Hungary’s 2019 municipal elections, a series of video clips
released online by an anonymous source showed a prominent Fidesz
mayor participating in an orgy on a yacht.

The following year a Fidesz lawmaker in Brussels was detained after
trying to escape out of a window and down a drainpipe when the
police raided a party being held in violation of Covid restrictions
that Belgian news media described as an all-male orgy.

The last-minute additions to the legislation were criticized by
human rights groups, including the Foundation for Rainbow Families,
which promotes legal equality for all Hungarian families with
children.

“Fidesz does this to take the public conversation away from major
happenings in the country,” said Krisztian Rozsa, a psychologist and
board member with the foundation, citing corruption and the
government’s responses to the pedophilia scandal and the coronavirus pandemic.

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BUDAPEST — Hungary’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt
legislation that would increase sentences for sex crimes against
children, but critics say the law is being used to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community ahead of crunch elections for Prime
Minister Viktor Orban next year.

Last-minute changes to the bill, which was prompted by public
outrage after a series of sex scandals involving governing party and
government officials, included restrictions against showing or “popularizing” homosexuality and content that promotes a gender that diverges from the one assigned at birth.

Mr. Orban’s critics say the changes were made to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community in an effort to rally support from his conservative base and shift the focus away from the failures of his administration ahead of elections in 2022.

The new rules, unexpectedly added to the bill by government-aligned
lawmakers last week, require the labeling of all content that might
fall into that category of “not recommended for those under 18 years
of age.” Such content would be restricted for media like television
to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would
restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.
The bill would also create a public database of sex offenders.

Mr. Orban has increasingly presented himself as a protector of
traditional Christian values, although that image has been
undermined somewhat by the sex scandals involving officials and
allies of his Fidesz party over the past few years.

Last year, a Hungarian diplomat in Peru was convicted of possession
of child pornography and handed an $1,800 fine and a suspended
prison sentence after being brought home and charged in Hungary.
That case, which sparked the public pressure on the legislature to
enact stricter sentencing for pedophilia crimes, was just one in a
series of scandals that has undermined public faith in Mr. Orban’s government.

Before Hungary’s 2019 municipal elections, a series of video clips
released online by an anonymous source showed a prominent Fidesz
mayor participating in an orgy on a yacht.

The following year a Fidesz lawmaker in Brussels was detained after
trying to escape out of a window and down a drainpipe when the
police raided a party being held in violation of Covid restrictions
that Belgian news media described as an all-male orgy.

The last-minute additions to the legislation were criticized by
human rights groups, including the Foundation for Rainbow Families,
which promotes legal equality for all Hungarian families with
children.

“Fidesz does this to take the public conversation away from major
happenings in the country,” said Krisztian Rozsa, a psychologist and
board member with the foundation, citing corruption and the
government’s responses to the pedophilia scandal and the coronavirus pandemic.

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BUDAPEST — Hungary’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt
legislation that would increase sentences for sex crimes against
children, but critics say the law is being used to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community ahead of crunch elections for Prime
Minister Viktor Orban next year.

Last-minute changes to the bill, which was prompted by public
outrage after a series of sex scandals involving governing party and
government officials, included restrictions against showing or “popularizing” homosexuality and content that promotes a gender that diverges from the one assigned at birth.

Mr. Orban’s critics say the changes were made to target the
country’s L.G.B.T. community in an effort to rally support from his conservative base and shift the focus away from the failures of his administration ahead of elections in 2022.

The new rules, unexpectedly added to the bill by government-aligned
lawmakers last week, require the labeling of all content that might
fall into that category of “not recommended for those under 18 years
of age.” Such content would be restricted for media like television
to the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The restrictions extend to advertisements and even sexual education, which the law would
restrict to teachers and organizations approved by the government.
The bill would also create a public database of sex offenders.

Mr. Orban has increasingly presented himself as a protector of
traditional Christian values, although that image has been
undermined somewhat by the sex scandals involving officials and
allies of his Fidesz party over the past few years.

Last year, a Hungarian diplomat in Peru was convicted of possession
of child pornography and handed an $1,800 fine and a suspended
prison sentence after being brought home and charged in Hungary.
That case, which sparked the public pressure on the legislature to
enact stricter sentencing for pedophilia crimes, was just one in a
series of scandals that has undermined public faith in Mr. Orban’s government.

Before Hungary’s 2019 municipal elections, a series of video clips
released online by an anonymous source showed a prominent Fidesz
mayor participating in an orgy on a yacht.

The following year a Fidesz lawmaker in Brussels was detained after
trying to escape out of a window and down a drainpipe when the
police raided a party being held in violation of Covid restrictions
that Belgian news media described as an all-male orgy.

The last-minute additions to the legislation were criticized by
human rights groups, including the Foundation for Rainbow Families,
which promotes legal equality for all Hungarian families with
children.

“Fidesz does this to take the public conversation away from major
happenings in the country,” said Krisztian Rozsa, a psychologist and
board member with the foundation, citing corruption and the
government’s responses to the pedophilia scandal and the coronavirus pandemic.

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