Dhaka, June 18 -- Several hundred activists of the Awami League's banned student wing Chhatra League have conducted a procession in Dhaka's Mohakhali.

The march began from the Mohakhali Bus Stand around 9am on Thursday.

A passerby identified as Mithun Sarkar told bdnews24.com that people started gathering outside the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) around 9am before suddenly launching a procession with banners towards the bus terminal.

Demonstrators were heard shouting slogans calling for the release of "political prisoners" and marking the Awami League's founding anniversary.

Mithun said some 20 to 25 women from the Jubo Mohila League joined the procession along the way.

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