(VOVworld) - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region authorities on Tuesday cleared part of a protest camp in the central Admiralty district.

Pro-democracy protester and a worker remove a fence in accordance with a court injunction to clear up part of the protest site

Police and court bailiffs arrived at the 33-storey Citic Tower in Admiralty, next to government buildings, to remove street barricades, facing no objection from the protesters. The authorities moved in after a court granted an injunction from Citic Tower's owners to clear the area. The injunction only covers the area around the CITIC Tower, leaving a long section of a multi-lane highway still under occupation and filled with hundreds of protest tents.

Protest tents in Hong Kong streets

A survey by a Chinese University in Hong Kong showed that 67 percent of Hong Kong respondents objected to the Occupy movement. The percentage of respondents supporting the pro-democracy movement was now 34 percent while 43 percent did not support them - last month the figure was about 35 percent.