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Hong Kong activists refuse to back down
Hong Kong activists refuse to back down, Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have retaken streets in the Mong Kok district cleared by the authorities just a few hours earlier.
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Hong Kong: Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have retaken streets in the Mong Kok district cleared by the authorities just a few hours earlier.
Some 9,000 protesters pushed back riot police, managing to retake territory south of a major intersection. They have been occupying parts of the city for weeks, angered at China's curbs on who can stand in Hong Kong's next leadership election in 2017.
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Police made 26 arrests for assault and other offenses on Friday evening.
Fifteen police officers were injured in the clashes, police said, while several protesters were seen being knocked to the ground during the latest scuffles, AP news agency reports.
Wielding open umbrellas as their only weapons, thousands of pro-democracy protesters flocked to Mong Kok last night. Their goal was to push past police lines to re-occupy the streets that had been cleared by law enforcement officials just a few hours earlier.
The police responded by using batons and pepper spray but they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of demonstrators.
By Saturday morning, they had once again managed to retake territory south of a major intersection, stopping traffic in both directions.
Protest group Occupy Central issued a statement (in Chinese) saying that the clearance operations ordered by the government had "triggered a new wave of occupations and worsened relations between police and citizens".
The Mong Kok camp in Kowloon is an offshoot of the original protest site around government offices in Admiralty on Hong Kong Island.
Protesters and police are also congregating at Admiralty, although there are no reports of clashes.
Earlier on Friday, Alex Chow from the Federation of Students said both his group and the government had agreed to meet next Tuesday, in talks that would be broadcast live on radio, the South China Morning Post reported.
