The Hungarian government fired the director of the National Museum on Monday after he allowed minors to attend a World Press Photo exhibition featuring LGBT content, despite allegedly breaking the law, Reuters reported.

Tensions surrounding the exhibition erupted last month when the far-right Mi Khazank (“Our Motherland”) party launched a government investigation into the matter.

The party cited a 2021 law that bans “demonstrating and promoting homosexuality” in books and films accessible to under-18s.

The law, which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government says aims to protect children, has been criticized by the European Union and human rights groups.

After a government investigation, the museum said it had no right to ask visitors for ID to determine their age, but posted a notice on its website urging people under 18 not to visit the exhibition.

The Minister of Culture and Innovation announced in a statement on Monday that László Simon, the museum’s director, had been fired for failing to comply with the institution’s “legal obligations”.

Simon announced on Facebook that he had been fired, but denied that the museum intentionally broke any laws. According to him, the museum “immediately” posted the age limit on the institution’s website.

Simon, a former lawmaker from Orbán’s conservative Fidesz party, ironically thanked the Nasha Batkivshchyna party in an earlier Facebook post for promoting the exhibition, as long lines formed outside the museum over the weekend.

Earlier this year, some Hungarian booksellers were fined for selling books depicting homosexuality that were not wrapped in plastic, as required by law.