Workers were sent in to dismantle barricades at the main pro-democracy protest site in Hong Kong this morning.

The protests have choked roads into the city's most economically and politically important district for more than two months as part of a campaign to demand free elections.

Bailiffs stood by in the Admiralty district next to government buildings and the Central business area as workers in construction hats used wire cutters to remove barricades erected by protesters after a court injunction two days ago.

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