Hong Kong police remove barricades at Occupy Central protest site

October 13, 2014 08:02

Police in Hong Kong started to remove barricades from protest sites in the city's financial center early today. Protesters have occupied major districts in Hong Kong to demand full universal suffrage for the city, a culmination of decades of frustration among the city's democracy activists. "There are hundreds of police out and they have started dismantling some of the barricades," said an eyewitness. Police issued a statement on Monday morning saying that officers had starting removing "obstacles" outside the protest area in the central district and Mong Kong with the aim to relieve traffic, "not to clear the scene".

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