Police forces march toward pro-democracy protesters holding umbrellas during a standoff outside the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. Hong Kong police vowed October 14 to tear down more street barricades manned by pro-democracy protesters, hours after hundreds of officers armed with chainsaws and bolt cutters partially cleared two major roads occupied for a fortnight. #

A police officer sprays a pro-democracy protester in the face with pepper spray in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. Hong Kong has been plunged into the worst political crisis since its 1997 handover as pro-democracy activists take over the streets following China's refusal to grant citizens full universal suffrage. #

A cyclist is pictured near a barricade, which was later removed by the police, on a main road leading to the financial Central district in Hong Kong October 14, 2014. #

An anti-Occupy Central protester shouts at pro-democracy protesters as he is dragged away by police officers at the main protest site in Admiralty in Hong Kong, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of unidentified people, some wearing masks, tried to break down protest barriers in the heart of Hong Kong's business district on Monday, scuffling with protesters who have occupied the streets for the past two weeks. #

Pro-democracy protesters (rear) hang onto their barricades as they clash with anti-Occupy Central protesters (left) in the Central financial district in Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. #

A pro-democracy protester wears a plastic bottle as protection from tear gas as he stands facing a police cordon near the government headquarters building in Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. #

Pro-democracy protesters take pictures around an art installation made with umbrellas as they block a commercial area of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on October 11, 2014. #

A couple, running late for their wedding ceremony due to the occupation of the main roads by pro-democracy protesters, run towards the marriage registry in central Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. #

Pro-democracy protesters stand behind umbrellas as police prepare to advance on their positions near the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. #

Civic Party member Ken Tsang, one of Hong Kong's pro-democracy political groups, is taken away by policemen, before being allegedly beaten up by police forces as seen on local TV footage shot outside the central government offices in Hong Kong on early October 15, 2014. #

A protester leans on barricades after scuffling with police as they were trying to remove barricades that protesters set up to block off main roads in Hong Kong's Central district on October 15, 2014. Hong Kong police removed some barricades on Tuesday from the edge of pro-democracy protest zones that have choked off roads for weeks, the second straight day they have taken such action and signaling their growing impatience with the student-led demonstrators. #