Hong Kong (AFP) - 00:43 GMT - Monday morning - Our AFP reporter Jerome Taylor reports that in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay, around 1,000 protesters remain as the sun got up on Monday morning.
Many lie on the main road trying to catch up on some sleep as they brace themselves for the return of police following their overnight retreat.
Some have used a nearby HSBC branch to sleep with the relative comfort of air conditioning. The protest there stopped busses and trams on a major thoroughfare into the city.
00:31 GMT - Police have repeatedly fired tear gas in clashes with protesters, forcing protest leaders to warn supporters to "retreat and save their lives" if rubber bullets are fired.
This marks a dramatic escalation of rallies in the city, which rarely sees such violence, after a tense week of largely contained student-led demonstrations explode into mass angry street protests.
00:19 GMT - WELCOME TO AFP'S LIVE REPORT ON ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands head to the streets to rally against Beijing's refusal to grant the city full universal suffrage.
Protesters have defiantly stuck to their demands for universal suffrage after Beijing last month said it would allow elections for the city's next leader in 2017 but will vet the candidates -- a decision branded a "fake democracy".