Prague  - The Czech government Monday asked the country's Highest Administrative Court to outlaw the far-right Worker's Party, whose events are commonly attended by neo-Nazis, official said.

Interior Minister Ivan Langer said the party violates Czech law, which outlaws political groups that aim to abolish democracy.

He said that actions by the Worker's Party "are not and will not be tolerated in the Czech Republic".

Public protests organized by the Worker's Party have been commonly attended by neo-Nazis, experts on the country's far-right extremist scene have said.

Most recently on November 17, 500 radical supporters of the party clashed with police, who successfully blocked the party members from marching through a mostly Roma-inhabited neighbourhood in the northern Czech town of Litvinov.

Racist violence made headlines elsewhere in central Europe in recent weeks. In Hungary, two Roma were shot dead after fleeing when their house was set ablaze in a petrol bomb attack in early November.

To the outrage of Hungary's Roma community, the police dismissed a racial motive behind another Roma murder that took place last week in the southern Hungarian town of Pecs. (dpa)