Burmese students and activists took to the streets again on Friday morning, calling for the release of fellow protestors and denouncing the watered-down amendments bill on the National Education Law, which was passed by the country's upper house of parliament on Thursday. Rallies were reported in Rangoon, Myingyan in Mandalay Division, Tavoy[Dawei] in Burma's southernmost Tenasserim Division, and Myaungmya in the Irrawaddy delta. Early reports indicate that seven protestors were arrested during the rallies - four in Myingyan and three in Rangoon- including Nanda Sitt Aung, who on Wednesday was charged in absentia on five accounts at Letpadan Township Court, where dozens of students and other activists were charged and jailed. Nanda Sitt Aung, one of four activist who were declared fugitives for not appearing in court, helped lead the Rangoon protest on Friday morning but was apparently spotted by police and arrested along with two colleagues. Ko James, deputy-chair of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), said, "The three were followed on their way back to their hideout after the protest. Plain-clothes police arrested them at a bus stop in Mingalar Taungnyunt." Ko James said that about 40 Rangoon activists turned out despite a heavy security presence to begin a protest at 10:10am in front of the Theingyi Market Plaza in the city's downtown area. "We have four demands: the adoption of a student- and public-focused education law; the release of the students and other protestors from Tharawaddy prison; action taken against government officials who acted above the law or ordered the violent crackdown on the students' protest[in Letpadan on 10 march]; and an official denunciation of the use of violence used to disperse peaceful demonstrators." Speaking to DVB on Friday after the rally, Aung Nay Paing, a member of the Committee for Democracy Education Movement, said, "The authorities tried to stop us but we persevered with the protest. We chanted slogans on the pedestrian crossing bridge and sang songs. "Afterwards, Ko Nanda Sitt Aung addressed the crowd, explaining the students' cause and denouncing the police's use of violence to disperse demonstrations, stressing that the government should find a political solution to the issue." Meanwhile, students in Myingyan demonstrated by flying student flags on their motorbikes instead of marching down the street due to the heavy police presence in the town, according to a DVB reporter who followed the march. "The students on motorbikes were ordered to stop by local police and the district administrator but they ignored them and drove on by," he said, adding that protestors also distributed leaflets to onlookers. Meanwhile, more than 30 students in the Irrawaddy Division town of Myaungmya marched through the town wearing matching t-shirts and distributing stickers to passers-by, according to local ABFSU member Tayza. "We are staging this campaign to promote awareness about the detained students and their supporters," he said, adding that two students from Myaungmya are among those detained in Tharawaddy prison. Another students' protest went ahead in Tavoy on Friday morning, but a planned demonstration in Henzada, also called Hinthada, just 30 kilometres west of Tharawaddy and Letpadan, was stopped by local police. UPDATE: 09/ 06/ 2015 Students apply for bail at Myingyan hearing One student's application for bail is to be considered while two others were rejected at a court hearing in Myingyan for eight detainees in connection with their participation in education law protests. Six of the eight - students Nyan Myint Than and Sithu Myat, and activists Sein Win, Ma Phyu, Kyaw Than Tun and Thant Zin - were arrested for staging a protest on National Armed Forces Day, 27 March, when they denounced a violent crackdown on student demonstrators in Letpadan earlier that month. The six appeared before a judge at Myingyan District Court, Mandalay Division, where they have been charged under Penal Code articles 143, 145 and 505(b): for joining an unlawful assembly; continuing to be part of an unlawful assembly, defying order to disperse; and sedition, respectively. Nay Oo Moe Aye, a lawyer representing the two students, said Sithu Myat's mother on Thursday requested bail for her son, a second year mathematics student, on the basis that his classes recommence in June. The judge accepted the bail application and said he would take into consideration. "Sithu Myat is set to begin a new university semester in early June and so his mother is requesting that he be released on bail," the lawyer said, adding that mother and son were permitted to speak to each other at the courthouse as per a request. Two other student activists appeared for a separate hearing at Myingyan District Court on Thursday: Soe Hlaing, a second-year at Monywa Technological University in Magwe; and Zin Ko Thant, a fourth-year Burmese major student at Mandalay's Yadanabon University. Both face charges under the State Flag Law for lowering the national flag during a protest at Myingyan Degree College in January. Their lawyer Chan Myae said an additional charge was read out at the hearing on 4 June: the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Act - for staging a protest without official permission. Chan Myae said the pair applied for bail but were denied.