The co-founders of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong have - TopicsExpress



          

The co-founders of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong have repeated their call for protesters to retreat. Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming also said they would turn themselves in to police on Wednesday. Occupy Central initially led the pro-democracy protests, but has receded as students continued with demonstrations. Student leader Joshua Wong has begun a hunger strike to demand talks with the Hong Kong authorities over the movements ideas for political reforms. Occupy and the students want China to scrap its plans to screen candidates for the 2017 election for the territorys leadership. They want the Hong Kong government to renegotiate the arrangement with Beijing.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:12:20 +0000

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