Chris Brown has asked for the protection ban on Rihanna to be lifted due to good behaviour, it has been reported.

The R&B star was given five years probation and six months community labour after pleading guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna in February 2009.

After completeing his domestic violence education program Brown has asked Judge Patricia Schnegg to lift or downgrade a protective order requiring him to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna at all times, when they appear at celebrity events together, Rolling Stone reports.

(by Holly Frith)