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Hong Kong police announced Thursday that they had detained 12 pro-democracy protesters after a night of clashes when nearly 100 demonstrators took to the streets Wednesday, marking the first sizeable rally since the last Occupy Central protest camp was cleared by authorities last week, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The protesters, who were holding long banners that read We want true universal suffrage, crowded the pavements on Christmas Eve and also rushed into traffic on major roads in the Mongkok district, according to the report.The protesters were arrested on various charges, including assaulting police officers, obstructing a police officer and other riotous conducts, the police said, adding that they used pepper spray and batons to break up the protests.
They caused chaos and blocked roads, the police said in a statement, obtained by AFP, adding that 10 men and two women were among those detained.
During Wednesdays rally, protesters also walked to the citys government headquarters in an attempt to signal that the democracy movement was not over.
There is one thing that I am certain of and that is the movement had never ended in our hearts, one of the protesters told AFP. No matter how they try to stop us and pressure us, as long as we want to persevere to the end our movement will go on.
As authorities cleared the main Occupy Central protest site in Hong Kong earlier this week, many protesters had said at the time that they would keep the movement alive.
I think the occupation of the streets will end today, but the movement will still be here, a protester told International Business Times.
Today we will finish the civil disobedience process. [But] I think there will be a big mass action next year in April or May, said another protester.
Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping said last week that the people of Macau -- which is a special administrative region of China, like Hong Kong --should respect the one country, two systems principle, a comment that many considered to be aimed at pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
We must both adhere to the one-China principle and respect the differences of the two systems at no time should we focus only on one side to the neglect of the other, Xi reportedly said.
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BEIJING: Weary with the one-party system run by the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), most Chinese have identified democracy and equality as the most important values, an official survey said.
A bluebook-- analysing Chinese society was published by the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)-- said more than 40 per cent of respondents think that equality and democracy are the most important values that contribute to a good society.
The book included a poll asking people to choose certain social values that they think are necessary for a good society among the 19 choices offered.
The poll surveyed more than 10,206 people in 31 regions. It found that equality, democracy, justice, civilised behaviour, prosperity and harmony were widely seen as the most important values, with over 40 per cent of respondents saying that these elements are necessary for a good society, state- run media reported.
The results appeared significant as they demonstrated the fatigue over the one-party system administered by the CPC and arrests of hundreds of officials for corruption and abuse of power in the latest crackdown.
The survey found that those who chose democracy tended to be better educated. Over 47 per cent of urban residents said democracy was important, while only 37.8 per cent of rural residents chose this option.
Respondents with a college or other higher education degree tended to favour democracy over other social values.
White collar workers, government employees, company managers and students think most highly of democracy, the poll said, while working class and rural respondents tended to select justice as being more important for society.
In addition to democracy, equality was also widely chosen as the most important societal value by individuals born after 1990, according to the CASS report.
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"Police arrested 10 men and two women, aged between 13 and 43," the statement said, adding they were detained for assaulting police officers, obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct, among other charges.
Mongkok was the scene of some of the most violent clashes during two months of sit-in protests which occupied major roads in Hong Kong.
Protesters in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay, where the last protest site was cleared on December 15, raised yellow crosses and umbrellas as they sang Christmas carols and yelled: "Our Christmas wish is that I want real universal suffrage".
Protesters occupied stretches of some main highways for more than two months from September 28, calling for fully free leadership elections in 2017 after Beijing said candidates for chief executive must first be vetted by a loyalist committee.
The city's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying Thursday made his first visit to the Chinese capital since the sit-ins ended to deliver an annual report.
"One of the main points would be related to me and the government's determination to achieve elections for the chief executive in 2017... I believe that the determination of the central authorities has not changed," Leung said before his trip.
Pro-democracy campaigners are still making their voices heard despite the clearances. Large banners have appeared on landmarks and pop-up markets sell movement memorabilia, in addition to smaller protest gatherings.
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