Hong Kong clears protest barriers

Hong Kong authorities cleared away the last barricades and tents of the two-month protest movement but the dozens of student leaders and other activists they took away vowed their fight for greater democracy wasn’t over.

Hundreds of police officers carried out a methodical, peaceful operation to shut down the protest site that sprawled across a normally busy highway on the edge of the specially administered Chinese city’s financial district.

The student-led demonstrators have been protesting Beijing’s restrictions on the first election for Hong Kong’s leader, though the movement’s momentum has been fading in recent weeks.