Cairo (CNN) -- Cairo braced for a third day of protests despite stifling heat Monday, as Egyptians vent anger over the trials of former top officials accused of ordering demonstrators killed during last year's revolution. Former President Hosni Mubarak and his Interior Minister Habib El Adly were sentenced to life in prison, while six top interior ministry officials were cleared of the charges. Protesters flooded into Cairo's Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of Egypt's revolution, in the wake of the verdict, outraged at the clearing of the ministry officials and angry that Mubarak escaped the death penalty. The protesters chanted "Down with SCAF," the military council that has ruled the country since Mubarak was toppled last year, and shouted that the court ruling was illegitimate.
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Demonstrators vow to continue protests despite stifling heat in Cairo
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Prosecutors charge Mubarak's sons with money laundering
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Five of Mubarak's aides have been freed; his sons remain in prison
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Hundreds of people gather in Tahrir Square after Mubarak escapes the death penalty
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