Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says there would be legal consequences for organising or attending a Budapest Pride March in violation of a police ban on the event on Saturday.

“Orban says, “We are adults, and I recommend that everyone should decide what they want, keep to the rules … and if they don’t, then they should face the clear legal consequences”.

He says police could disperse a banned event, but Hungary was a “civilised country” and the task for police was to convince people to follow the law.”

Parliament passed a law that bans LGBTQ+ communities from holding the annual pride march and allows a broader constraint on freedom of assembly in March.