Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was removed on Monday from a hearing in a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, global TV channels reported.
Mladic refused to participate in the hearings until he is provided with new lawyers.
Mladic has pleaded not guilty.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) accuses Mladic, 68, of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. He is thought to be behind the 1995 genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst single atrocity since World War II.
