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HONG KONG - NOVEMBER 25: Pro-democracy protesters hold banners and shout slogans on Argyle Street in Mongkok district on November 25, 2014 in Hong Kong. Getty Images
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday arrested pro-democracy demonstrators who refused to comply with a court order to clear a protest site in the city's Mong Kok district, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs.
Police took away about a dozen protesters after warning people not to interfere with workers and bailiffs enforcing the court order to remove obstructions from the site, one of three that activists have occupied for nearly two months.
Protesters initially put up no resistance as workers in white hard hats and gloves tore down barricades, moving wooden pallets and other junk into the middle of an intersection to be taken away in a truck that had pulled up.
But as the authorities pushed down the 50-meter (164-foot) occupied stretch of Argyle Street to remove tents and other debris, they faced defiance from protesters, who used delaying tactics such as asking for more time to pack up their belongings.
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Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung was among those taken away by officers to waiting police vans.
Traffic on the previously occupied section of Argyle Street - which had been blocked by the protesters for nearly two months - was flowing in one of the four lanes by late afternoon.
Protesters have been camped out on major thoroughfares in three areas of Hong Kong since Sept. 28 demanding greater democracy in the semiautonomous city. The standoff has continued with no end in sight as neither the government nor the student-led protesters have shown any willingness to compromise.
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HONG KONG, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- As Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement enters its second month, participants are realizing the penalty for their protest.
Some protesters, including three student leaders, have been denied entry into mainland China.
Alex Chow, a 24-year-old leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, was traveling with two protest leaders to Beijing on Saturday to meet with Chinese government officials when they were told at the airport that their travel permits, required for travel into China, had been cancelled.
"A boy wants to go back to his motherland, but he is refused. Why? How can this make us love China?, Chow asked from a makeshift stage Saturday night, addressing several thousand protesters in the city's Admiralty district.
It seems that protest leaders are not the only ones being singled out for their pro-democracy activity. One young design student told the Washington Post that she was stopped at the border on her way to buy material in China last week because she had been filmed at a protest and was now considered a threat to national security.
"At first I just couldn't believe it," she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of additional government reprisal.
She and the student leaders are among an unspecified but growing number of protest participants being denied entry into China.
Protests began Sept. 26 to voice objection to Beijing's plans to allow only approved candidates to run for office in Hong Kong's 2017 elections, regarding the move as a violation of China's "one country, two systems" agreement providing Hong Kong with a specified but ill-defined "high degree of autonomy."
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Published November 25, 2014
A man is taken away by police officers as workers start clearing away barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)(The Associated Press)
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as workers start clearing away barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)(The Associated Press)
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as workers start clearing away barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)(The Associated Press)
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as workers start clearing away barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)(The Associated Press)
Workers start clearing away a tent set up by pro-democracy protesters at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. ((AP Photo/Vincent Yu)(The Associated Press)
HONG KONG Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday arrested pro-democracy demonstrators who refused to comply with a court order to clear a protest site in the city's Mong Kok district, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs.
Police took away about a dozen protesters after warning people not to interfere with workers and bailiffs enforcing the court order to remove obstructions from the site, one of three that activists have occupied for nearly two months.
Protesters initially put up no resistance as workers in white hard hats and gloves tore down barricades, moving wooden pallets and other junk into the middle of an intersection to be taken away in a truck that had pulled up.
But as the authorities pushed down the 50-meter (164-foot) occupied stretch of Argyle Street to remove tents and other debris, they faced defiance from protesters, who used delaying tactics such as asking for more time to pack up their belongings.
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