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BUDAPEST, Hungary -- People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting this year's World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary's right-wing populist government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content.The prestigious global photo exhibition, on display in Hungary's National Museum in Budapest, receives more than four million visitors from around the world every year.
While the government insists that the 2021 “child protection” law is designed to insulate children from what it calls sexual propaganda, it has prompted legal action from 15 countries in the European Union, with the bloc's Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling it “a disgrace.
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