Bands of determined protesters and hundreds of wet tents pitched near Hong Kong government headquarters were all that remained on Wednesday of months of prodemocracy protests in the final hours before police clear the main protest site.
Police plan to clear the main protest site in Admiralty on Thursday after 2½ months of road blockades, protests and sporadic violent scuffles in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
The sprawling urban campsite that sprang up on a major highway stands as a poignant symbol of Hong Kong's stubborn push for full democracy under Chinese Communist Party rule.