HONG KONG — Thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong remain on the streets for a fourth day Tuesday in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience. Beijing is refusing to meet their demands.
The protest was sparked by anger over China's refusal to allow the open selection of candidates for Hong Kong's leader — called the chief executive — in the city's first democratic election scheduled for 2017.
A statement on Twitter from the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement said it set an Oct. 1 deadline for Leung Chun-ying to meet their demands for genuine democracy or for him to step down as Hong Kong's leader.
The group said it would soon announce new civil disobedience plans if no action was taken to meet demands by Wednesday. However, Leung said Tuesday that neither he nor China's communist leaders in Beijing would back down.
"The central government will not rescind its decision," said Leung, rejecting one of the protesters' demands.
Last month, China's government decided that candidates in the city's election must be hand-picked by a committee mostly sympathetic to Beijing's political wishes.
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