The new law is part of a crackdown on Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community by the nationalist-populist party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is an ally of Putin and Trump.

Protests erupted in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, after the Eastern European nation’s parliament passed a law banning Pride events and allowing law enforcement to use facial recognition software to track people who attend such events.

Hungary's president has signed a law proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling party that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march, defying criticism by human rights organisations that it restricts freedom of assembly.