FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the latest anti-LGBTQ law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Marton Monus
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary ordered shops on Friday to sell children's books seen as promoting homosexuality in "closed wrapping", stepping up restrictions that have set Prime Minister Viktor Orban on a collision course with rights groups and the European Union.
The decree also included books seen as promoting gender change and containing "explicit" depictions of sexuality. It told shops to sell them separately and banned any sale of them at all within 200 metres of a school or a church.
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