This combination image made from two photos show tents set up by pro-democracy protesters at an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, top, the same place on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows items belonging to protesters littered on the ground after police officers clear the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows barricades set up by pro-democracy protester on a main road at the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows workers clearing away a tent and other barricades at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows tents set up by pro-democracy protesters in an occupied area outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, top, and the same site on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows protesters holding a yellow banner with words reading: "I want genuine universal suffrage" on a barricade at the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows tents set up by pro-democracy protesters in an occupied area outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district in Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, and the same site on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows workers sweeping after police cleared barricades and tents on a main road in the occupied areas at Causeway Bay district in Hong Kong Monday, Dec 15, 2014, top, and the same area on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows a protester praying at an altar of Chinese Taoist God of War, Guan Yu, set up at a barricade on the main road of the occupied area in the Mong Kok district Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, top, and the same site on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Chan Long Hei)
This combination image made from two photos shows student protesters occupy the streets surrounding the government headquarters in Hong Kong, early Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, top, and the same site on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, Chan Long Hei)