OCCUPY CENTRAL - NIGHT SEVEN: Full coverage of the night's events
Police and protesters clashed in Mong Kok overnight, with pepper spray and batons used to control the crowds. CY Leung said the schools and government offices 'must' reopen Monday, as China's state press denounced Occupy Central.
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Sporadic clashes have continued throughout the night in Mong Kok, as protesters gathered in their thousands in Admiralty. Hundreds of demonstrators are staying put in Causeway Bay, where the situation has calmed down.
A tense night followed Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's stark warning that government offices and schools "must" reopen by Monday after former pan-democrat lawmaker Cheung Man-Kwong warned that Occupy is in a "very dangerous situation" that has to be resolved “in a very short period of time".
Pan-democrat lawmakers have called earlier violence in Mong Kok an orchestrated attack by the government and triad gangs on demonstrators.
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