“Farcical” democracy
by digby
An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.
Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while in power.
Egypt’s religious authorities will now have to give their opinion before the sentence can be carried out.
Morsi’s supporters from his Muslim Brotherhood movement have described the charges against him as “farcical”.
He was deposed by the military in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule.
Since then, the authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and arrested thousands of his supporters.
I’m sure there are people in this country who envy the Egyptian system today. (Google Muslim Brotherhood if you don’t believe me.) But it should be recalled that Morsi was democratically elected. Not that we care about that.
And you thought “realism” was dead …