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William Beausire
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He is among the list of people deemed disappeared under the Pinochet regime. William Beausire was a British businessman who had a British father and a Chilean mother, and had dual nationality. He was abducted in Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport by plain clothed agents of the Argentine security forces on 2 November 1974, as he was on his way to France.
lieutenant is thought Beausire was targeted in an attempt to find out where Mary-Anne and Andres Pascal were.
Witnesses say that Beausire was given electric shocks, had sticks forced into his rectum and was hung in the air. On 17 May 1975 he was taken to another DINA centre in Calle Irán, Santiago.
The last anyone heard of William Beausire was on 2 July of that year, when witnesses reported seeing DINA officers taking him from a building in Iran Street, Santiago, since when he was never seen again. In June 1976 the United Kingdom Government referred the case to the United Nations.
Beausire was 26 years old when he was arrested.
His mother died in 1995. In 1981 his case was highlighted when featured in the British Broadcasting Corporation television "Prisoners of Conscience" series, with Beausire being played by Richard Griffiths.
