Review | OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 18: Full coverage of the day's events
Civic Party vice-chairwoman Tanya Chan says Ken Tsang was slapped and hit with a hard object in police custody after an alleged beating by officers was caught on camera and aired on television.
Good evening and welcome to our ongoing live coverage of Hong Kong's Occupy movement.
Police used pepper spray and arrested 45 people to forcibly clear Lung Wo Road in the early hours of Wednesday. The road in Admiralty had been reoccupied by protesters late on Tuesday.
TVB aired footage of what they say is a group of police officers beating a protester, later idenitified as Civic Party member Ken Tsang Kin-chiu, after the operation.
In Tseung Kwan O, anti-Occupy protesters defied a court order and once again blocked the entrances to the Apple Daily newspaper headquarters overnight.
11.30pm: This concludes our live blog for Wednesday. Join us again tomorrow morning for more updates on the Occupy protests.
11.15pm: Members of the Occupy Central movement post online details of more alleged attacks by police against protesters on Lung Wo Road. In one post, it was alleged that officers pulled a man by his clothes, even though his hands were already up in the air. "Police pulled him by his clothing and he fell to the ground. His head was stepped on [sic], he was punched and kicked. He had a cracked lip," the group says in a posting in English on its Facebook page.
