2014 Hong Kong protests

This article is about street protests in Hong Kong also known as the Umbrella Movement. For the related advocacy group in Hong Kong, see Occupy Central with Love and Peace. For the related political movement in Hong Kong, see Umbrella Movement.

A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014.^[9][10]

Umbrella Revolution
Part of democratic development in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong–Mainland China conflict
The Admiralty protest site on the night of 10 October
Date	26 September 2014 – 15 December 2014 (2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location	Hong Kong: Admiralty (26 September 2014 – 11 December 2014) Causeway Bay (28 September 2014 – 15 December 2014) Mong Kok (28 September 2014 – 25 November 2014) Tsim Sha Tsui (1 October 2014 – 3 October 2014)
Caused by	Standing Committee of the National People's Congress decision on electoral reform regarding future Hong Kong Chief Executive and Legislative Council elections
Goals	Genuine universal suffrage[1][2][3][4] Retraction of the NPCSC decision Abolition of functional constituencies of Legislative Council of Hong Kong Resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying
Methods	Occupations, sit-ins, civil disobedience, mobile street protests, internet activism, hunger strikes, hacking
Resulted in	No changes to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress decision on 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform and rejection of the reform by Legislative Council (the large rejection result of 8 to 28 was caused by errors of Pro-Beijing camp)[5] Suffragists launched mobile street protests in various areas after clearance operations Localism and independence movement rises, leading to further protests in 2019
Concessions	The Hong Kong SAR government promises to submit a "New Occupy report" to the Chinese Central government[6]
Lead figures
Alex Chow Lester Shum Joshua Wong Nathan Law Benny Tai Chan Kin-man Chu Yiu-ming Agnes Chow Edward Leung Denise Ho CY Leung Carrie Lam Rimsky Yuen Andy Tsang Robert Chow
Injuries and arrests
Injuries	470+ (as of 29 Nov)[7]
Arrested	955[8] 75 turned themselves in
Sites of significant protests