HONG KONG, Oct 26 — The ‘Occupy Hotel’, which was set up last year to commemorate Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, has been taken off Airbnb, Hong Kong Free Press reported on Friday.

The delisting apparently came two days after government officials paid a surprise visit to the Causeway Bay apartment where the “Umbrella Revolution Occupation Experience” is located.

Operator of the apartment, Stephen Thompson, told the website that two officials asked if he had any paying guests, which he denied.

They then took photos of the apartment’s Umbrella Movement memorabilia and left.

Two days later, Airbnb sent Thompson an email notifying him that the listing for ‘Occupy Hotel’ would be taken down, without providing a reason for the decision to delist the property.

While he has no evidence to back up his claims, Thompson strongly suspects that the Hong Kong government persuaded Airbnb to remove his listing.

He accused the company of “acting in an arbitrary way, exercising its power like a dictatorship.”

The 50-year-old Brit also claimed that Airbnb delisted his UK property too, after he questioned the motive behind the removal of the ‘Occupy Hotel’.

“After I told them that I think this is political, they went a step further and delisted a property I had advertised in the UK, and seem to have removed my profile, too,” he was quoted as saying by Hong Kong Free Press.

Airbnb’s Terms of Service state: “Airbnb reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Listing for any reason, including Listings that Airbnb, in its sole discretion, considers to be objectionable for any reason, in violation of these Terms or Airbnb’s then-current Policies and Community Guidelines, or otherwise harmful to the Site, Application or Services.”

Set up in a small apartment in the Causeway Bay shopping district, which was previously home to one of three protest camps, visitors paid HK$100 (RM54) to stay in one of two small tents surrounded by protest memorabilia.

The walls are draped with pro-democracy banners, and a cardboard cutout of Chinese President Xi Jinping holding a yellow umbrella dominates the room.

When nature calls, guests will find the face of the city’s embattled leader Leung Chun-ying printed on the toilet paper.