Augusto Pinochet Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/augusto-pinochet/ 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 19:26:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Augusto Pinochet Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/augusto-pinochet/ 32 32 59910430 CCS Urges Chile to Reopen the Investigation into Boris Weisfeiler’s Disappearance https://concernedscientists.org/2016/03/chilean-appeals-court-judge-permanently-closes-investigation-into-the-disappearance-of-mathematician-boris-weisfeiler/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:23:24 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4968 In January 1985, during the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Boris Weisfeiler, a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, disappeared while hiking alone in the Andes. According to the hundreds of United States declassified documents, it appears that Dr. Weisfeiler was kidnapped, questioned and tortured by the Chilean military and eventually executed. Take […]

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]]> 4968 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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