HONG KONG-CHINA-DEMOCRACY

Police forces (back) stand guard next to a cordon as pro-democracy protestors sit to maintain their occupied area in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. Police armed with bolt cutters, chainsaws and sledgehammers made a renewed attempt to remove barricades along a stretch of the main protest site held by pro-democracy demonstrators for the past fortnight. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE