; Whereas Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling party Fidesz , has increasingly moved towards authoritarianism in word and action, declaring in 2014 that he preferred an illiberal state and illiberal democracy citing Russia as his model; Whereas numerous independent human rights organizations have raised alarms about the situation in Hungary and enumerated concerns in an April 25, 2017, letter to the European Parliament, including the International Federation for Human Rights, the European Association for the Defense of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders, and Human Rights Watch; Whereas Prime Minister Orban has sought to stifle any opposition to his rule, including by suppressing free speech and assembly, from universities, civil society groups, and independent think tanks; Whereas the Fidesz-dominated legislature is considering the draft law on the Transparency of Organizations Receiving Foreign Funds (T/14967), submitted on April 7, 2017, which would force nongovernmental organizations receiving more than 7,200,000 HUF per year from abroad to register as civic organizations receiving foreign funding and organizations which will fail to comply with the new law would face dissolution; Whereas this law and other policies are thinly disguised as attempts to consolidate Fidesz control and is modeled on Russia’s foreign agent law which the EU and international rights experts have criticized as a tool to silence independent civil society and would further shrink the space for independent civil society organizations which protect human rights and deliver valuable services to society; Whereas Hungary continues to violate the rights of asylum-seekers and migrants by allowing for the blanket detention of almost all asylum-seekers, including persons above the age of 14, in border transit zones for the whole duration of their asylum process, including any appeals