Hungary on Tuesday modified a new whistleblower law, following outcry by human rights groups, by removing a section that had allowed citizens to report anonymously against perceived attacks on conservative values.
Budapest-based rights groups had said the original measures were aimed at stirring anti-LGBQT sentiment.
Hungary's president Katalin Novak had also said the original law was impractical, and sent it back to parliament for a review.
A modified version of the bill, without the controversial section, was approved by the Budapest assembly on Tuesday.
Last month, the originally adopted bill widened anti-corruption whistleblower legislation by allowing citizens to report abuses of "fundamental values and rights" contained in the constitution.
Citizens would have been able to report to authorities "in the public interest of... protecting the Hungarian way of life".
New areas of potential abuses had included "casting doubt" on the "constitutionally recognised role of marriage and family" or on "children's (...) right to self-identity according to their birth gender".
Since an amendment in 2019, Hungary's constitution -- rewritten by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government after it took power in 2010 -- states that marriage is only possible between a man and a woman, and that the mother is a woman and the father is a man.
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