Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, has been released after seven years of house arrest.
News agencies quoted witnesses as saying that she was meeting crowds of supporters at the gate of her home in Yangon, Myanmar's main city, soon after her release on Saturday.
Earlier, witnesses said hundreds of people rushed to her home after the authorities removed barbed-wire barricades in front of her compound.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who heads the country's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), later appeared at the gate of her compound, the crowd chanted, cheered and sang the national anthem.
"We must work together in unison to achieve our goal," she told the cheering crowd.
Al Jazeera's special correspondent reporting from near her home in Yangon said the crowd let out a huge cheer when the police vehicle left the compound, ending the latest period of arrest.
"Where I'm standing now, I can see no security forces around her house. The barricades that have been in place for the last seven years were moved aside to allow those people to come in.
"It was almost impossible for her to speak," our special correspondent said, adding that the cheering did not die down for at least 20 or 30 minutes while she stood there.
A smiling Aung San Suu Kyi wearing a traditional jacket and a flower in her hair told the crowd that she will stay inside her house tonight.
Close to 1,000 people, including journalists, had gathered near her lakeside house throughout the day, many chanting "Release Aung San Suu Kyi" and "Long live Aung San Suu Kyi". Some wore T-shirts emblazoned with messages pledging to stand with her.
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