Hong Kong: The Hong Kong police Monday broke up the last bastion of the pro-democracy protests in the city with 17 arrests in a busy commercial district.
It was the third such police operation in a month to dismantle street protest sites in Hong Kong.
The police this time were deployed at the commercial Causeway Bay district where a small group of barely 50 people remained at an improvised camp put up when the demonstrations began in September.
Within an hour, police officers and cleaning personnel, with the help of about half a dozen tow trucks, dismantled over a hundred metres of the occupied street campsite.
They also cordoned off the area where about 20 people were on the streets defying repeated warnings from the police. In total, at least 17 people, according to what Efe news agency could verify, were detained by the police while about 100 people shouted slogans in favour of unrestricted universal suffrage for Hong Kong voters. (IANS)