A pro-democracy protester faints and is helped by volunteer rescuers during clashes with riot police outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong December 1, 2014. Hong Kong police baton-charged and pepper-sprayed thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the early hours of Monday who were trying to encircle government headquarters, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of protests.
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