Chile Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/chile/ 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=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Chile Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/chile/ 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 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 Weisfeiler Case submitted to Human Rights Commission in Chile https://concernedscientists.org/2011/08/weisfeiler-case-submitted-to-human-rights-commission-in-chile/ Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:42:44 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/redesign2011/?p=826 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 […]

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