HK demonstrators reject official demands to end rallies
Defiant Beijing calls protests 'illegal activity', says it supports HK leaders
Add BT as a preferred source[HONG KONG] Demonstrators in Hong Kong on Tuesday rejected demands by the authorities to immediately end rallies that have paralysed the city's downtown. The protesters' numbers have swelled for a third night on the eve of a national holiday expected to put their campaign for free elections into overdrive.
Protest leaders are confident they can muster massive crowds overnight and into Wednesday for the National Day public holiday, which this year marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of Communist China.
Protesters rejected a call from the city's embattled leader to end the sit-in, as well as Beijing's branding of their demonstrations as "illegal". They took to the streets once more in anger at China's refusal to grant full democracy.
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