Democracy is dead in Egypt

Egyptian revolutionaries opened the door for the military to seize control when they failed to unite behind a single candidate in defence of a secular democracy.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, meets with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, at the United Nations in New York in September. Photograph by Eskinder Debebe courtesy of the UN

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 30, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in the presidential palace, but his death sentence was quashed last week. On Tuesday, the country’s highest appeal court also overturned his life sentence...

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