Occupy Central is a civil disobedience campaign initiated by
Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Associate Professor of Law at the University
of Hong Kong, and advocated by Occupy Central with Love and
Peace. In the course of the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform,
OCLP intends to pressure the PRC Government into granting an
electoral system which satisfies the international standards in
relation to universal suffrage in Hong Kong Chief Executive
election in 2017 as promised according to the Hong Kong Basic
Law Article 45. Should such an electoral system not be achieved,
OCLP sought to fight for equal suffrage in Hong Kong through
illegal means, namely the occupation of Central, which OCLP
vowed would be non-violent.