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The military officials in the management of Myanmar expanded a ban on social media following this week's coup, shutting way to Twitter and Instagram. Simultaneously, street protests continued to expand Saturday as people gathered again to show their resistance to the army takeover.

Several thousand people demonstrated on Saturday in Yangon's streets, the country's biggest city, in the largest gathering since the military takeover.

"Down with the military government," they sang, many wearing red scarves and wristbands, the interests of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party of Aung San Suu Kyi, held on Monday.

Factory workers and students were raised among the protesters who marched near a university in Myanmar's economic capital. More than 100 police in riot gear had been deployed to block them from moving ahead by noon.

The protesters added around 3,000, AFP estimated. It was the boldest showing yet in the city by those exposed to the military takeover and appears to indicate a growing readiness to confront the new regime head-on.

On Saturday, graduate lawyers from Myanmar's Yadanabon University became the country's latest civil society group to show their opposition to the military coup against Suu Kyi's government.

Posing for a picture, more than two dozen lawyers wore red ribbons and showed the three-fingered protest salute. They held a flag reading: "We condemn the illegal coup; No to dictatorship."