rtokens: They were among 500 students who started demonstrating at the intersection on late Friday afternoon .
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tokens: The protesting students , mostly from Rangoon University , were demanding the right to organise independent unions on campuses and the release of about 80 student leaders currently in jail .
ltokens: The witnesses said some of the students were hit with batons while they were herded onto the vehicles and it was believed they were taken to the Insein prison in suburban Rangoon .