Update | Anti-Occupy protesters defy court order, block Apple Daily delivery

More than 100 people, mostly women wearing facemasks, surrounded the headquarters of the Apple Daily newspaper in the night to Tuesday in an ongoing effort to stop the newspaper’s operations.

The protesters said they wanted to voice their anger against what they regard as the newspaper’s favourable coverage of the Occupy movement.

The High Court issued a court order in the early hours of Tuesday, which called on the group to clear the newspaper office’s entrances.

The night to Tuesday marked the third consecutive night the group camped out at the Tseung Kwan O site.

Police officers formed a human chain to separate protesters from Apple Daily staff. It appears that not arrests have been made.

The group of mostly women continued to block the main gate until dawn. Delivery trucks could not enter the premises.