Professors Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man and Pastor Chu Yiu-ming announced that they will surrender to police on Wednesday. The protest leaders' announcement comes after Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying declared that the demonstrators' hunger strike is "futile."
The three founders of the Occupy Central movement said Tuesday that the pro-democracy protesters should end their demonstrations "to prevent further violence and to take the campaign for democratic reforms to a new stage," The Associated Press reports. They hope to end street protests and instead work with civic groups and community organizations to achieve democracy in Hong Kong. But AP also notes that it isn't clear whether student protesters will follow the trio's lead and their calls to "retreat."
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