Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia

He resigned in 1980 in protest against the Gaddafi regime's policies of summary executions practiced by the Libyan government at the time through the so-called revolutionary committees.

[4] On 10 December 1993, he vanished mysteriously after participating in an Arab Organization for Human Rights Board of Trustees meeting in Cairo.

[5] A four-year investigation conducted by the CIA, which was concluded in August 1997, produced convincing evidence that Egyptian agents staged the abduction and forcibly escorted al-Kikhia to the residence of Ibrahim Bishari, Libyan ambassador to the Arab League where he was interrogated by Abdullah Senussi, then to the Libyan authorities, who executed him.

The similarity between Reda Helal and Kikhia cases has raised widespread suspicion about the involvement of high-ranking Egyptian officials.

For years Egyptians have heard of forced disappearance of public figures elsewhere in the region (e.g. Iraq, Syria and Libya), but not their own.