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LIVE: Student leaders call for mass rally in Admiralty after government calls off talks
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 09 October, 2014, 7:47am
UPDATED : Thursday, 09 October, 2014, 11:30pm
Good evening and welcome to our continuing coverage of the Occupy movement.
Federation of Students leader Lester Shum called on protesters to take to streets on Friday at 7.30pm for mass rally in Harcourt Road after Chief Secretary Carrie Lam called off talks on electoral reform.
Meanwhile, a formal complaint has been lodged with Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency regarding chief executive Leung Chun-ying’s secret £4 million (HK$50m) deal with a listed Australian engineering firm.
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11.30pm Causeway Bay: While talks about the future of the Occupy movement continue there's also art in progress in Hennessy Road.
Italian architect and painter, Francesco Lietti, brought a blank canvas yesterday to the streets that is rapidly being filled with the hands and ideas of people on the streets. After an enthusiastic response yesterday, he decided to come back today. Dozens of people have joined him to paint over the past few hours.
Lietti says he felt "moved" by the Occupy movement that has spread across Hong Kong, and he aims to create piece that can symbolise events here.
11.15pm Admiralty: Speeches by protest leaders come to an end. However, it is estimated that at least 5,000 people are still gathering in Harcourt Road.
More protesters showed up in Admiralty on Thursday night after the government suspended talks with the Hong Kong Federation of Students, but the situation remains peaceful.
Winsome Ng, a third-year student from Baptist University says it was predictable for the government to cancel the talks originally scheduled for tomorrow.
“From the very beginning the government has made their bottom line very clear - that Beijing would not retreat from their decision regarding the nominating committee, which left little room for a constructive talks with the protesters,” Ng says.
Ng adds that it is the government, not the protesters, who have taken the occupation of Admiralty as a bargaining point in the dialogue.
“The reason why we have taken to the streets was to call for dialogue.” Her remarks were in response to Carrie Lam’s announcement earlier that the federation has hindered the basis of the dialogue by taking the “public interest” of other commuters as a bargaining chip.
Ng says she did not expect tensions to escalate again in Admiralty, where the police used tear gas on the crowd a week ago. “That strategy has been proven ineffective, and thus I don’t think the government will adopt the same approach again. But we will stay alert.”
10.45pm Admiralty: After the student leaders' speeches, Father Franco Mella comes on stage to show his support for the students. He says many people in the church still support the Occupy movement. His remarks came as Cardinal Joseph Zen plea a day earlier for students to retreat from the Mong Kok and Causeway Bay protest sites, and comments casting doubts on the effectiveness of the prolonged sit-in.
10.40pm Admiralty: Speaking to supporters on stage in Harcourt Road, Lester Shum refutes Carrie Lam's claims that the number of protesters have been dwindling in recent days. Shum calls on the tens of thousands of Hongkongers who had participated in the Occupy movement to take to streets again on Friday at 7.30pm for an assembly in Harcourt Road - now renamed by protest leaders as "Umbrella Square". He also vows that the fight for democracy would last for a very long period of time.
Alex Chow, speaking on verge of tears, says Carrie Lam had created the political crisis by compiling a report to the central government that failed to reflect Hongkongers desire for genuine democracy. He also says the government has lost the legitimacy to govern after it used tear gas to suppress unarmed citizens.
"When the government lost the legitimacy to govern, how can the government accuse us undermining the basis of dialogue when we are only peacefully appealing for the rights for true democracy?" Chow says. He also promises that students would explore ways to escalate their disobedience campaign, without giving further details.
10.30pm Causeway Bay: Ian Chan Kok-hin, external vice-president of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, describes the governments' decision as "insincere". "The government is forcing the students and citizens to continue the occupation." He stresses that "occupying the roads is just one means of civil disobedience, but there are others."
Chan says that the Occupy movement, the Federation of Students, the Scholarism movement and other NGO's will launch another round of civil disobedience. "Boycotting the payment of government taxes" is one of the actions being considered, he says. "The government will have to listen the public."
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Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1612602/live-democracy-advocates-urge-unity-occupy-movement-enters-12th-day
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