Protesters in tense stand-off
After more than 50 days blocking a main intersection in Mong Kok, demonstrators obey court injunction before occupying another site
As one road opened in Mong Kok yesterday another closed, with protesters declaring they would not give up until there was a political solution to their grievances.
"It's impossible to get everyone to leave," occupier Zero Lam Tat-wing said as police and bailiffs moved in.
"They need to solve what is a political problem using political means, not through the courts," he said, referring to injunctions obtained by transport operators that were enforced yesterday.
After clearing one lane of Argyle Street, police were left in a tense stand-off last night with demonstrators who had closed off Portland Street.
"With Argyle lost, we will simply just occupy another intersection which does not fall under the court injunction. Either way, it will be illegal and we recognise this," protester Kolson Ko said. "The whole point is to block traffic and we need to find another bargaining chip."