Hong Kong Police Gain Ground at Admiralty, but Stop Short of Clearing Protesters

HONG KONG—Police prepared to move in and clear out metal barricades, tents, and protesters from a section of road outside a shopping mall and office building on Tuesday morning, executing orders of the High Court handed down recently.
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Hong Kong Police Gain Ground at Admiralty, but Stop Short of Clearing Protesters
Protesters add more barricades to the area at the Citic Tower at Admiralty as police say they will clear the area after given the clearance from the high court in Hong Kong on Nov. 18, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
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Student leader Joshua Wong sits just outside the Citic Tower area at the Admiralty protest site on Nov. 17, 2014. (Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times)
Student leader Joshua Wong sits just outside the Citic Tower area at the Admiralty protest site on Nov. 17, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times

Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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