Soldiers guarded Rangoon's Shwedagon Pagoda again on Friday
At least 70 people detained in Burma during recent anti-government protests have been released, an opposition party official has said.
About 50 members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) are said to have been among those freed.
An NLD spokesman said they walked free on Thursday, the same day Ms Suu Kyi, herself detained since May 2003, met a Burmese government official.
Separately, Burmese troops returned to Rangoon's streets on Friday.
Armed soldiers surrounded the Shwedagon and Sule pagodas, both focal points for last month's violently suppressed protests.
But there were no signs of fresh demonstrations, despite crowds of pilgrims taking to the streets to mark the end of Buddhist Lent.
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