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Egyptians took to social media platforms over the past 24 hours, lamenting the era of Hosni Mubarak following a decision by the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to raise prices of underground metro tickets 20 times higher to what their value was during the late autocrat’s three-decade-long rule. Social media users posted comments on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Mubarak only allowing the prices of metro tickets to be increased from 50 piasters to one Egyptian pound, for once during his reign that lasted from 1981 till he was removed by the 25 January Revolution that erupted in 2…