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Leaders Of Hong Kong Protests Call For End To Demonstrations

Pro-democracy activists Benny Tai (center) attends a press conference with Chan Kin-man (left) and Chu Yiu-ming (right) in Hong Kong on December 2, 2014. The three original founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy movement tearfully announced they would 'surrender' by turning themselves into police and urged protesters still on the streets to retreat. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-democracy activists Benny Tai (center) attends a press conference with Chan Kin-man (left) and Chu Yiu-ming (right) in Hong Kong on December 2, 2014. The three original founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy movement tearfully announced they would 'surrender' by turning themselves into police and urged protesters still on the streets to retreat. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

In Hong Kong today, three of the founders of the pro-democracy protest movement Occupy Central are saying they will turn themselves in to police, and are calling on their fellow protesters to pack up the camps, stop demonstrating and find other ways of carrying the democracy movement forward. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson gets the latest from NPR’s Frank Langfitt, who is in Hong Kong.

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