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| Hong Kong police arrest democracy protesters at sit-in | |
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| Police in Hong Kong have arrested 196 protesters who staged a pro-democracy sit-in at the city's business district. | |
| The demonstrators were reportedly arrested for illegal assembly and obstructing police officers. | |
| It came after tens of thousands of protesters marched on Tuesday in what was described as the city's largest democracy rally in a decade. | |
| The annual rally, marking the day Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, was to demand full electoral freedom. | |
| Organisers said turnout at the rally was 510,000, while police said about 98,600 took part during the peak of the march. | |
| After the main march had ended, hundreds of protesters staged a sit-in in the city's Central district. | |
| Police said the sit-in was "unauthorised" and began removing some of the participants in the early hours of Wednesday. |