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CHRONOLOGY - 1994
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February 20, 1994
The Maximum Security Prison (CAS) opens, and 42 political prisoners are transferred there. Amnesty International confirms that many are mistreated and tortured during the transfer.
June 1994
Chile signs the Inter American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons. However, by mid-1998 it is still not ratified by Congress.
March 27, 1994
The last political prisoners arrested during the military regime have their prison sentences commuted to exile. A week earlier, Hector Maturana, Hector Figueroa, Juan Ordenes, and Miguel Angel Colina, all charged in the assassination attempt against Pinochet, had left Chile for Europe after their sentences were also commuted to exile.
April 1994
The Supreme Court reopens the Carmelo Soria case.
MAY 1, 1994
The status of "Chilean exile" is no longer warranted, announces the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Given the "normalization" of the situation in Chile, refugee status for Chileans abroad is not justified, according to the UNHCR declaration. The National Office of Return reports that 700,000 Chileans remain outside the country, while 45,000 have returned since the inauguration of the first democratic transitional government.
JUNE 15, 1994
Sergio Buschmann returns to Chile and is immediately arrested. After defying an arrest order against him since his 1987 escape from prison, he is jailed in the Maximum Security Prison.
OCTOBER 8, 1994
General Rodolfo Stange announces he will leave his post as director of Carabineros police on October 14, 18 months after President Frei solicited his resignation for his alleged participation in covering up the triple homicide of the Communist Party members in 1985.
Fernando Cordero Rusque is named as his successor.
OCTOBER 14, 1994
Forensic experts at the Medical Legal Institute confirm the identities of 13 disappeared who had been illegally buried in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery. Among the remains of the 104 persons exhumed from 125 graves by court order in 1991 are five former members of president Salvador Allende's GAP bodyguards.
OCTOBER 23, 1994
Thirty-seven political prisoners are transferred to the CAS maximum security prison from Santiago's ex-Penitentiary and San Miguel men's prison, bringing the number of political prisoners in the CAS to 82.
NOVEMBER 21, 1994
The International Association Against Torture reports 29 cases of torture in Chile in the period mid-1992 to May 1994.
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