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Update: Chilean Court Upholds as Lawful the Disappearance, Kidnapping and Murder 30 Years Ago of Boris Weisfeiler, Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University

November 30, 2019

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 this crime. Indictments assured that those ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Chile Tagged With: Andes, Boris Weisfeiler, Chile, Pennsylvania State University

CCS Urges Chile to Reopen the Investigation into Boris Weisfeiler’s Disappearance

March 28, 2016

Boris Weisfeiler disappeared in Chile in 1985. Human Rights

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 Action Sign the ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Chile Tagged With: Augusto Pinochet, Boris Weisfeiler, Chile, Human Rights, Military government of Chile (1973–1990), Pennsylvania State University, Scientists, The New York Times

Weisfeiler Case submitted to Human Rights Commission in Chile

August 22, 2011

Boris Weisfeiler

In 2010, Olga Weisfeiler and her son Lev arrived in Chile to resubmit Boris Weisfeiler's case to the recently opened human rights commission, Comisión Asesora par la calificatión de Detenidos Desaparacidos, Ejecutados Politicos y Victimas de Prisión Politica y Tortura, in short La Comisión, for evaluation. The Commission's work was presented to the President of Chile on August 18, 2011. No date is ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Chile, Prominent Cases Tagged With: Boris Weisfeiler, Chile, President of Chile, Scientists

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