Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has been sentenced to death on trumped up charges. Will he be executed? The most likely answer is that, under guidance from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, an appeals court will commute the sentence to life in prison.
If that happens, El-Sisi will be signaling that his strategy for handling the Muslim Brotherhood will be to replicate what Hosni Mubarak and Anwar Sadat did before him: keep it illegal but tacitly allow it to exist, as long as it's nonviolent.
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