Egypt erases history: 5 places where the Mubarak name will be removed

An Egyptian court on April 21 ordered the physical removal of the Mubarak family name from all public places, formalizing a process that protesters began months ago. Read our list of a few of places to be scrubbed of the Mubarak moniker.

Mubarak Policy Academy

The country’s main police training facility, the Ministry of Interior’s police academy, still carried Mubarak’s name at the time of the court order, but protesters have been thinking ahead: the idea of renaming the academy to the "Khaled Said Police Academy," after the young Egyptian man whose death at the hands of Egyptian police was a catalyst for the protests that led to Mubarak’s ouster, has been circulating.

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