Review | OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY SIX: Full coverage of the day’s events
Mong Kok witnessed violent scenes as local residents and an anti-Occupy Central group attacked protesters in an attempt to end demonstrations. All the day's events here.
Good afternoon and welcome to our continuing 24-hour Occupy Central coverage. Students are waiting to hear details about the dialogue promised by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in his late evening press conference. Leung said he would not step down, rejecting one of their key demands.
Meanwhile, anti-Occupy sentiments are on the rise throughout Hong Kong as annoyed residents, business owners and anti-Occupy activists get into quarrels and clashes with protesters holding out in Causeway Bay, Admiralty and Mong Kok.
In Beijing, the People's Daily again insisted in a commentary on its front page on Friday that the central government would not back down.
Follow all the latest throughout the sixth night of Occupy Central here.
10.45pm Mong Kok: More than 100 police officers have been dispatched to defend its police line in case more demonstrators storm into the protest zone in Mong Kok.
10.35pm Mong Kok: The Fire Services Department send a mobile casualty treatment truck to the protest zone in Mong Kok that has almost become a battlefield.