Manila, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, have protested the burial of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes' cemetery in a growing political storm that's lashing the president who allowed the entombment.
More than 1,000 activists turned out in the rain to a main rally dubbed the "Black Friday" protest at Manila's seaside Rizal park, where they carried Marcos' effigy in a mock coffin.
At the state-run University of the Philippines, a fraternity had naked recruits running around while holding placards that read, "Marcos dictator not a hero."
President Rodrigo Duterte allowed last week's burial of Marcos in a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.
Marcos was president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, when he was overthrown by a revolt - dubbed the People Power revolution - and forced to flee into exile to Hawaii, where he died in 1989, Al Jazeera reports.
His body was returned to the Philippines in 1993 and has since been kept in a refrigerated crypt in a mausoleum in his hometown of Batac, Ilocos Norte, 470km north of Manila.
Marcos was buried with military honours, angering human rights activists who accuse him of human rights violations and corruption.
The students, clad only in masks, held banners demanding that Marcos' body be removed from the cemetery, as crowds gathered to watch the 'Oblation Run'.
"This run is a manifestation of our anger against what we see as the Marcoses trying to revise history, trying to revive their name," said Toby Roca, spokesman of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.
The naked run, an annual tradition to highlight different causes, began in the 1970s when students protested after Marcos banned a film criticising his administration.
Earlier, President Duterte said that he would not stop protest actions by anti-Marcos groups
Duterte said that he allowed Marcos' burial because he was a former president and a soldier.
"To all the protest organizations, let me throw this simple proposition to you. I will gladly and happy even to step down and relinquish my post if you can answer in the negative these two key questions, Was the late Ferdinand Marcos a President and was he a soldier?," he said.
AP, Reuters, Xinhua