Two months ago, the protests began, apparently now approaching the end of the umbrella protests in Hong Kong: The police can put away the barricades in the streets of demonstrators – whose popular support is disappearing.

Police in Hong Kong has begun clearing roadblocks on major protest camp of the democracy movement. Officials and road workers build since Tuesday morning barricades around a skyscraper in the city area Admiralty near the seat of government from. A Hong Kong court had previously arranged this step – after about siebenwöchigem protest of activists for democracy.

The activists of the so-called umbrella movement first paid no resistance, protest leader Joshua Wong said. “We respect the decision of the court” Activists but would still remain in other streets around the seat of government, the 18-year-old chairman of the Upper School’s Association announced. Recently, several hundred activists had still persevered in the protest camp in Admiralty.

The protests were sparked by the plans of Beijing 2017 while allowing first direct election in Hong Kong, but to deny voters a free nomination of candidates. Since the return of the former British colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997 is autonomously governed as a territory of its own – currently from umstrittenenen Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.

Hong Kong Demoracy Movement:Entry bans for 500 activists

In addition to the order of the court taxi drivers and bus drivers had brought an action against roadblocks on the second encampment in the financial district of Mong Kok last success. The police would enforce the latest in the next week, this court decision, local media reported.

Police had begun to clear some roadblocks weeks ago. Then it came in Mong Kok clashes between activists and police applied. During the APEC summit in Beijing last week, the police had detained.

Initially, many Hong Kong people had supported the protests. But after nearly eight-week blockade of major transportation routes of encouragement for the activists drops. According to a survey conducted by the University of Hong Kong, 70 percent of Hong Kong’s population against further demonstrations and for an eviction of the protest camp. Of 1030 respondents, 43 percent were against the protest movement, while 34 percent approved of the movement generally.

So far, the most active were able to achieve any of their goals. On Saturday, three protest leaders had tried to file a petition in Beijing. However, they have been stopped by the airline in Hong Kong on the grounds that they lacked the necessary entry permits. Around 500 activists from Hong Kong are approved by local media on a list of the Chinese government, which prohibited them entry to the rest of China.

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