Hong Kong police are poised to clear the remaining pro-democracy protest sites in the city as the government tries to end a movement that has paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub for two months.
The high court ordered protesters to leave the protest zone in Admiralty, a central business district, where students have built a tent village on a main road to stage their pro-democracy campaign.
China in August sparked Hong Kong’s worst political turmoil in decades by revealing a plan for electoral reform that would allow people to vote for chief executive — the top political job in the territory — for the first time but would also in effect bar critics of Beijing from getting onto the ballot.