This whole thing has been when I realised that democracy is not what westerners want for the rest of the world. I remember no one batting an eye.

(…) for their role in the deadly violence of 2013, which followed the military’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president.

The men were accused of conspiring to topple the government of Abdel Fattah el Sissi, who himself came to power after overthrowing Mohamed Morsi.