HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of police started removing protesters from the heart of Hong Kong's business district early on Wednesday as they tried to stage a sit-in after a rally to demand greater democracy.
The pro-democracy march, which organisers said attracted more than 510,000 people, and the subsequent sit-in by mainly student groups could turn out to be the biggest challenge to Chinese Communist Party rule in more than a decade.
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