Hong Kong police arrested several leaders of the student-led protest that lasted 75 days. To end the protests, authorities ordered the mass movement leaders and their followers to leave the Admiralty site and took away the barricades and bamboo scaffolding.

Martin Lee, one of the founders of the Democratic Party that led the protest, said 75 days of protest is not sufficient to meet their demand for democratic reforms. But Lee and many of the protesters promised to return and continue the battle, while chanting, "We will be back."

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Alex Chow, leader of Hong Kong Federation of Students, said, quoted by Times of India, "You might have the clearance today but people will come back on to the streets another day."

Lai added that they are aware they have to fight more battles before they win the war.

Since Beijing refuses to grant concessions, the protest leaders said they are looking into other methods of civil disobedience to achieve their goals.

The 75-day protest is considered the biggest threat to Beijing's authority since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989.

On Friday, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said the umbrella protest, also called Occupy Central, lacked popular support. "(We) hope that all sides in Hong Kong society take this as a lesson, reflect on it coolly, further correctly understand and follow the 'one country, two systems' policy," quotes Reuters.

Besides Lee and Lai, also arrested were several legislators and Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon in Hong Kong and outspoken critic of Beijing who resigned as publisher of Apple Daily.

But a company official close to Lai said that the resignation was not linked to the Hong Kong protests and he still retained control of Apple Daily. At the height of the protests, several banks withdrew their ad placements with the daily, which company officials said is the result of backroom pressure from Beijing.

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