Now wonder the traffic in Egypt is per- manently clogged. In the three years since a revolution ended the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, the country's prisons have been bustling way-stations. Restless politics keeps incarcerating new batches of unfortunates even as thousands of others find themselves abruptly released. Egypt's busy jails have lately hosted both Mr Mubarak and a man he long persecuted, Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who became president in 2012 and was ousted in July. Under his rule several thousand long-serving Islamists were released, making space for cronies of Mr Mubarak. But since July thousands of Mr Morsi's supporters have been locked away while his predecessor's were freed.
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