Andes Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/andes/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:57:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andes Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/andes/ 32 32 59910430 Update: Chilean Court Upholds as Lawful the Disappearance, Kidnapping and Murder 30 Years Ago of Boris Weisfeiler, Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/update-chilean-court-upholds-as-lawful-the-disappearance-kidnapping-and-murder-30-years-ago-of-boris-weisfeiler-professor-of-mathematics-at-pennsylvania-state-university/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:39:34 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7697 In January 1985 Boris Weisfeiler, Professor of Mathematics at Penn State, disappeared while hiking in the Andes. In the review of declassified documents, it appeared that he was kidnapped, questioned, tortured by the Chilean military and executed. In 2012 the Judge of the Chilean Court of Appeals indicted 8 Chilean police and military officers for […]

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]]> 7697 CCS Requests Chile President’s Support For Permanent Human Rights Commission https://concernedscientists.org/2015/05/ccs-requests-chile-presidents-support-forpermanent-human-rights-commission/ Mon, 11 May 2015 14:23:07 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4184 For over 30 years, the Committee has supported the family of Dr. Boris Weisfeiler, Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University, in their search for the truth concerning the disappearance of Weisfeiler while hiking in Chile during the Pinochet regime. Finally, classified documents concerning Weisfeiler in the US Embassy in Chile and in the US […]

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