Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein in Geneva, Switzerland June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
GENEVA (Reuters) - New Hungarian laws that criminalise people for helping asylum-seekers are shameful and blatantly xenophobic, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said on Thursday.
The legislation, passed by the Hungarian parliament on Wednesday, could come into force as early as July 1, he said in a statement. This makes it a criminal offence to provide advice to migrants and refugees or to monitor human rights at borders, he added. Individuals could get a year in prison and organisations could be banned.
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