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		</div><p>Hong Kong police arrested 336 people over the Christmas period as the city’s protest movement continues to simmer, an official has said.</p>
<p>Chief police spokesman Kwok Ka-chuen told reporters that those detained between Monday and Thursday included 92 women and children as young as 12.</p>
<p>The arrests bring the number of people detained over the course of the protests to nearly 7,000, with a large proportion of student age.</p>
<p>Protesters, some donning Santa hats, battled police over the holiday as the more than six-month-long demonstrations look set to continue into the new year.</p>
<p>Mr Kwok condemned what he called attacks on ordinary citizens at shopping centres and restaurants and vandalism of public infrastructure including underground stations, banks and the electrical grid.</p>
<p><em>“Their scheme is to silence those who hold dissenting views and to terrorise the public. Whoever disagrees with their violence will be met with violence,”</em> Mr Kwok told reporters.</p>
<p>Black-clad protesters smashed shop windows in shopping areas, while police responded with tear gas and arrests.</p>
<p>The protests demanding greater democratic rights show no sign of dissipating following an overwhelming victory by anti-establishment candidates in elections for district representatives earlier this month.</p>
<p>The Christmas disruptions also raise concerns for the New Year holidays to follow and the longer Lunar New Year holiday in late January, a time that has led to violence and unrest in Hong Kong in the past.</p>
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