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Hong Kong's Occupy Central founders to surrender to police Hong Kong's Occupy founders prepare to report to police
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Founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement are preparing to turn themselves in to police, as student groups say they will continue protests. Founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement are preparing to turn themselves in to police over their role in pro-democracy demonstrations.
Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming will report to the police at 15:00 local time (07:00 GMT). Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming will report to the police at 15:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and could be charged with illegal assembly.
On Tuesday the three men held an emotional news briefing urging student demonstrators to withdraw. On Tuesday they held an emotional news briefing urging student demonstrators to withdraw from the streets.
Occupy Central initially led the pro-democracy protests, but has receded as students became more prominent. The Hong Kong government says the two-month-old protest is illegal.
Occupy and the students want China to scrap its plan to screen candidates for the territory's 2017 leadership election, and want the Hong Kong government to renegotiate the political arrangement with Beijing. Occupy Central - founded as a pro-democracy civil disobedience movement - initially led the pro-democracy protests, but has receded as students became more prominent.
Occupy's announcement, which followed clashes between protesters and police at the weekend, has prompted questions over whether the movement failed, with the South China Morning Post calling it a "plan that veered off script". The activists want China to scrap its plan to screen candidates for the territory's 2017 leadership election, and want the Hong Kong government to renegotiate the political arrangement with Beijing.
But Benny Tai told a radio show on Wednesday morning that he had no regrets, saying: "In hindsight, I would still do the same thing. I do not repent for what I have done." Occupy's announcement followed clashes between protesters and police at the weekend.
The founders said they would demonstrate "commitment and responsibility" by reporting to police, and that they wanted to transform Occupy into "a sustainable civil society movement".
"In order to challenge this unjust system, we are willing to face all consequences," they said
Benny Tai told a radio show on Wednesday morning that he had no regrets, saying: "In hindsight, I would still do the same thing."
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Activists and students began blockading parts of Hong Kong in late September. The authorities had from the start declared the street occupations illegal. The men also repeated their call for students activists to scale back their protests, amid sporadic clashes with police.
The three men could possibly be charged with organising and conducting unlawful assemblies, and said they were turning themselves in for accountability. One protest camp in Mong Kok has been taken down by the authorities, but a few hundred protesters remain on the streets and have refused to vacate the remaining two protest camps at Admiralty and Causeway Bay.
Occupy Central has repeatedly urged the students to pull back in past weeks, amid sporadic clashes with police. On Sunday night and early Monday, hundreds of young protesters clashed with police as they tried to surround government offices in Admiralty.
A few hundred protesters remain on the streets and have refused to vacate the remaining two protest camps at Admiralty and Causeway Bay, however.
Alex Chow, head of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, told reporters that student leaders would not follow Occupy and turn themselves into police.Alex Chow, head of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, told reporters that student leaders would not follow Occupy and turn themselves into police.
But he added that they would discuss with protesters whether they should end the protests. But he added that they would discuss with protesters whether they should end their action.
Two leaders, Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, have previously been arrested in clashes with police and are currently out on bail.Two leaders, Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, have previously been arrested in clashes with police and are currently out on bail.
Mr Wong is on a hunger strike to demand talks with the Hong Kong authorities over the movement's ideas for political reform.Mr Wong is on a hunger strike to demand talks with the Hong Kong authorities over the movement's ideas for political reform.
On Sunday night and early Monday, hundreds of young protesters clashed with police as they tried to surround government offices in Admiralty.
The students had called for an escalation in the protests after bailiffs cleared another camp in Mong Kok.
But Mr Chow later admitted the move had failed, after police pushed back demonstrators.
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Are you in Hong Kong? What is your reaction to the protests? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.Are you in Hong Kong? What is your reaction to the protests? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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