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Small paper umbrellas — symbols of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong — are strung up in a display at the site of protest in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong on November 16, 2014. Three Hong Kong democracy protest leaders were on November 15 denied permission to board a flight to Beijing, where they had hoped to bring their demand for free elections directly to Chinese authorities. Protesters have been occupying key intersections around the former British colony calling for fully free leadership elections in 2017, but Beijing has insisted that all candidates be screened by a loyalist committee. AFP PHOTO / ALEX OGLE