Mood Live Blog

Thousands of people continued their sit-in of Tahrir on Saturday night, though numbers appeared slightly smaller than they had been over the past several days, Al Jazeera's Malika Bilal reported from Cairo. The mood, however, remained defiant, with groups of protesters erupting into spontaneous chants against the military. 

Amid the crowd, food vendors hawked their offerings of tea and desserts, while bands of young men shot off firecrackers.

The almost-festive atmosphere shifted dramatically just a few streets away, where a couple hundred activists rallied in front of parliament. Many of the protesters mourned the death of Ahmed Sayed Sorour, a demonstrator who was killed earlier on Saturday when he was run over by a police vehicle.

"No to Tantawi, no to Ganzouri!" the protesters chanted in reference to Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) head Field Marshal, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and Kamal El-Ganzouri, the new prime minister.