Fierce scuffles broke out at Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court today after an angry crowd of some 200 people stormed the building to eject around 100 protesters who have occupied it since late April.
The attackers threw out blankets and mattresses used by the people who seized the building on April 25 in protest at an earlier flawed parliamentary election.
Some 100 unarmed police and soldiers were trying to separate the sides.
The incident underscores the continuing volatility of the impoverished Central Asian state more than two months after a popular upheaval in March 24 that followed the disputed February-March poll.
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The upheaval led to the ouster of veteran president Askar Akayev and his replacement by opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev.