Surrounded by golden mantlepieces, tasselled curtains and a coterie of suits, Mohamed Morsi did not have the air of a man about to be ousted as president. He talked a good game, too. It was 29 June 2013, the day before much-hyped demonstrations that were expected to give the Egyptian military the cover they needed to sweep Morsi from power. But asked whether he trusted the army, Morsi replied with one word: “Gedan.” Absolutely. “They’re busy now,” he later added, “with the affairs of the army itself.” But evidently not busy enough – this was Morsi’s last interview as president. Two days on, army chief Abdel Fatah el-Sisi gave him an ultimatum to leave office. And two days after that, on 3 July, Sisi ordered his arrest. Morsi has spent the past 23 months in jail, on trial in an ever-increasing number of cases ranging from espionage to incitement, as his successors in power seek to guarantee that he never tastes freedom again. Sisi, by contrast, became president in Morsi’s place, overseeing a crackdown on most forms of opposition with tens of thousands of dissidents detained, and thousands killed. The biggest proportion of them have been supporters of Morsi’s Muslim…