CAIRO — Ousted president Mohamed Mursi dreamt of creating an "Egyptian renaissance with an Islamic foundation". That seemed more unreachable than ever on Tuesday after a judge jailed him for 20 years for violence, kidnapping and torture.President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief who ousted Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule, has repeatedly portrayed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group which poses an existential threat to Egypt.That message was well received by many Egyptians whose desire for stability made them turn a blind eye to Mr Sisi’s subsequent crackdown on Mursi, his supporters and other Brotherhood leaders. It was the toughest in Egypt’s history and about 800 protestors died.Mursi, 63, has only been seen in televised snippets from court sessions since his detention in 2013, and other leaders of the Brotherhood, the Middle East’s oldest Islamist group, are all behind bars. It never imagined it could rule Egypt — until the 2011 uprising that to...
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