Police have blocked a prayer march by more than 300 supporters of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon.
It comes two days after the military junta extended her house arrest for another year.
The protesters, led by former student leaders of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally put down by the regime, had planned to hold prayers at the famed Shwedagon Pagoda.
Police set up barricades and blocked access to the site, which has been the scene of previous prayer vigils for Suu Kyi.
The group, most of them members of Ms Suu Kyi's main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), returned to the party's headquarters where they prayed.
Ms Suu Kyi, 61, has been in detention for more than 11 of the last 17 years.
United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, has called her confinement 'cruel and unacceptable'.
Myanmar's official media has said Ms Suu Kyi's latest confinement, which began on May 30, 2003, was lenient and her release was not necessary for national reconciliation.
Today's protest also marked the anniversary of the NLD's sweeping 1990 election victory ignored by the military, which has ruled the former Burma in various guises since 1962.
