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#OccupyCentral thread: Give me Liberty or Give me Death!

Re: What is Occupy Central? 10 key facts about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement



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Police say they fired tear gas 87 times during the course of Sunday night’s protests.


 
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Some people were hospitalized


 
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Thats not maximum restraint but its brutality either.
 
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but large numbers of protesters continued to hold their ground.


 
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Protesters said they wanted the current chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, to ask Beijing for genuine democracy for the territory’s voters.



 
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Beijing has declared the protests illegal, and backed the Hong Kong government’s crackdown.



 
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Beijing has also warned other countries not to support the “illegal rallies”, and will hope the movement does not embolden anti-government protests elsewhere in China.


 
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The protests were spearheaded by students and university-age activists.


 
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However, they have started gathering momentum across other sections of society.


 
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One man told the AFP news agency that protesters were growing more confident: “Police don’t have enough officers to close down the districts where there are protests.”



 
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Protests have focused on the financial Central district, but have also broken out in the Causeway Bay shopping district
and caused a major roadblock across the bay in Mongkok.


 
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Speaking to the media on Monday, Cheung Tak-keung of the Hong Kong police said his officers had used the “bare minimum force”.


 
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He added that 41 people, including police officers, were injured during the previous three days.


 
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A number of protesters are camping out at night, with some sleeping on the ground and others on improvised barricades.



 
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