NAT denies changing Shohada station name to Hosni Mubarak

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Wed, 27 Dec 2017 - 08:57 GMT

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A widely-circulated picture that shows that a metro station's name being changed from Shohada (Martyrs) to Hosny Moubarak took social media by storm - Public domain

A widely-circulated picture that shows that a metro station's name being changed from Shohada (Martyrs) to Hosny Moubarak took social media by storm - Public domain

CAIRO – 27 December 2017: The spokesperson of the Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), Ahmed Abdel Hady, shot down rumors that have been circulated widely about the company’s move to rename Al-Shohada station with the name of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

Pictures featuring the label of Al-Shohada (Martyrs) metro station being changed to the label that holds the name of former President Hosni Mubarak took social media by storm.

“What happened was that the sticker of the metro station that bore the name of Al-Shohada was replaced with the old sticker that holds the name of Hosni Mubarak by an anonymous person in order to make a public fuss,” Hady said Tuesday in press remarks.

Honoring the martyrs of the 2011 revolution that toppled the former president, the metro station that was named after him was later named Al-Shohada (Martyrs). Mubarak was Egypt’s longest-serving president who ruled for more than 30 years and led a political life that was characterized by corruption, repression and autonomy.

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