1/8One of three protest leaders, Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, weeps as he announces that he and two other pro-democracy leaders will surrender to police, during a news conference, in Hong Kong, Dec. 2, 2014.
2/8Photographers are seen taking pictures as Occupy Central civil disobedience founder Benny Tai (center), a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, along with the co-founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, called on pro-democracy activists to pull back from the city's main protest site next to government headquarters and said they will surrender to police, Hong Kong, Dec. 2, 2014.
3/8Three protest leaders, from left, Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, announce that they will surrender to police, during a news conference in Hong Kong, Dec. 2, 2014.
4/8A riot policeman prevents pro-democracy protesters from getting near during clashes outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong, December 1, 2014.
5/8A pro-democracy protester lifts barricade reinforcements up onto an escalator near the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district, December 1,2014.
6/8Police officers beat up protesters as they try to disperse them outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Monday, Dec. 1, 2014.
7/8A pro-democracy protester blocks a riot policeman during a clash outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong, December 1, 2014.
8/8Police officers clash with protesters outside government headquarters in Hong Kong, Nov. 30, 2014.