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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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