(7 Apr 2014) Several hundred protesters picketed a planned session of the Supreme Court in Kiev on Monday in a call for the removal of senior judges.
The crowd gathered outside the courthouse gates and prevented staff from entering.
Among new laws passed recently by Ukraine's new government, the country's judges will now be subject to performance reviews and lustration, a process of removing corrupt officials from office.
Some protesters outside the court on Monday held signs reading: "Without lustration, corruption will continue" and "It is not for you to judge us."
Others brandished flags of the nationalist Right Sector movement, which played a prominent role in the protests that culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
Vasyl Onopenko, the President of the Council of Supreme Court Judges, told reporters that Monday's planned court session would not take place.
He also said senior judges don't understand "how significantly the situation, the society and Ukraine have changed" and were trying to stop the "irreversible legislative democratic processes".
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