Occupy Edmonton protestors have said they will stay put.

The group has been camped out at a park owned by Melcor at 102 Street and Jasper Avenue for over four weeks.

On Saturday the company issued an eviction notice to protestors, which gave them until 11 p.m. Sunday night to vacate the property.

"It's sad," protestor Patric Dion told CTV News.

"People support us."

After less than a week with the movement Dion packed up Sunday. He said he couldn't risk losing his belongings to police.

However, Edmonton police said they don't plan to move in Sunday night. They hope the situation will end peacefully.

In a statement issued to the media Sunday, the president and CEO of Melcor, Ralph Young, said it "has never restricted or objected to the rights of Occupy Edmonton to free speech or free assembly."

He also included a list of grievances with protestors including discovery and removal of needles and syringes, removal of human waste and harassment of tenants and citizens around the site.

"While Occupy Edmonton has stated its intentions to control these issues, we have seen little or no evidence of actually enforcement," Young wrote.

However, protestors claim the company was trying to silence them.

"This isn't about safety," Occupy Edmonton spokesperson, Mohad Mohammed said in an e-mail.

"This is about corporation trying to squash our right to peacefully assembly and to silence a voice that have been silenced far too long.

"If Melcor truly believed in people and the right to voice opinions it would let us stay rather than forcefully evicting a peaceful group and threatening civil legal action."

Mohammed told CTV News that 98 per cent of the group voted to stay.

"We have the constitutional right to be here," he said, adding if police did come to remove them they would not resist arrest.

"We don't intend to resist arrest. We tend to be as peaceful as we've been from the start."

Young said in his statement that the company was not passing judgment on the group's objectives.

"Melcor has never taken a public position on the issues raised by the movement and its only concerns have been for public safety, rights of ownership, right of its tenant and all site users, and liability issues relating to inappropriate use or actions on the site," he wrote.

With files from Sean Amato