My Way News - Hong Kong police arrest 209 protesters, demolish main camp
Dec 11, 2014 (the AP still doesn't know the year)By KELVIN CHAN
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities demolished a protest camp Thursday at the heart of the city's 2 ½bd}-month pro-democracy movement but scores of activists taken away by police vowed their fight for genuine elections wasn't over.
Hundreds of police officers armed with chain saws and bolt cutters methodically dismantled barricades, tore down canopies and removed banners in a daylong operation to shut the protest site sprawled across a normally busy highway next to the specially administered Chinese city's business district.
Police said 209 people were arrested for unlawful assembly and obstructing police officers.
The operation was peaceful and unmarked by the violent clashes seen in previous confrontations between protesters and police. Traffic started flowing on the road by mid-evening.
The student-led protesters had occupied streets in the Admiralty neighborhood and two other areas since Sept. 28 to protest Beijing's restrictions on the first election of the city's top leader.
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