BUDAPEST (Reuters) - 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.

The amendment to Hungary’s assembly law criminalises organising or participating in events that contravene the country’s controversial “child protection” law, which prohibits any “depiction or promoti

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.