Thousands of Hong Kong police are poised to clear a major protest site as bailiffs moved to enforce injunctions against the two-month old democracy movement.

Court bailiffs on Tuesday morning started clearing one part of the protest area in Mongkok, a bustling shopping district in Kowloon where protesters have blocked the roads for more than eight weeks. Last week, bailiffs removed demonstrators from a small area of the main protest site across the harbour on Hong Kong Island.

Protesters have been holding sit-in demonstrations for two months to oppose a Chinese plan for electoral reform in the territory. The student-led protests have blocked traffic arteries in Admiralty, a central business district on Hong Kong Island, and in Mongkok, a popular shopping destination for mainland Chinese tourists.