DHAKA: Hong Kong authorities may start clearing the site in the Mong Kok district where pro-democracy protesters have camped out for more than a month in their ‘Occupy’ campaign to fight for universal suffrage.

The protesters, who have been occupying a long stretch of Nathan Road in Mong Kok, have been formally notified that a clearance operation may take place on Tuesday afternoon, Radio Television Hong Kong reported on Monday, says The Straits Times.

The High Court had granted a taxi drivers’ group an injunction earlier in November to remove barricades put up by the protesters in the Mong Kok site as well as the main protest site in Admiralty on Hong Kong Island.

Notices of an injunction authorising the removal of barricades have also been posted in the occupied area, and in local newspapers, RTHK said.

It cited a lawyer who represents the taxi drivers' group, Phyllis Kwong, as saying that protesters who obstruct bailiffs from removing barricades will be arrested for contempt of court.

Bailiffs had cleared the area outside CITIC Tower in Admiralty last week with little resistance from the mostly-student protesters.

Tommy Cheung, a member of the Federation of Students, one of the main organisers of the Occupy movement, said protesters were ‘ready’ for the clearance in Mong Kok, RTHK reported.

BDST: 1910 HRS, NOV 24, 2014