2/ Throughout the summer, thousands of students eschewed school and university to gather outside the government headquarters to protest a decision by Beijing to give Hongkongers the right to vote for their leader, but only from candidates approved by Beijing. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP.

3/ After police deployed tear gas in September, they were joined by thousands more after legal scholar Benny Tai announced the beginning of Occupy Central with Love and Peace, a civil disobedience campaign to call for true universal suffrage. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP.