Riot police leave the area after clashes with opposition activists near a court in Kiev January 11, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
KIEV (Reuters) - At least ten people, including a former interior minister, were injured in the early hours of Saturday morning in clashes between riot police and protesters outside a courthouse in Ukraine's capital Kiev, witnesses said.
In the first clashes since last month, police using tear gas and batons tried to disperse a couple of hundred people protesting against three activists being sentenced to six years in jail, a case seen by protesters as politically motivated.
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