Deborah Popowski
| Deborah Popowski | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Deborah Alejandra Popowski |
| Occupation | Lawyer, human rights worker |
| Known for | Challenged psychologists who helped introduce torture into the US interrogations |
Deborah Popowski is an American lawyer, and human rights activist.[1] She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2008, and started working at Harvard's International Human Rights Clinic in 2009. She has been a clinical instructor in the Clinic's teaching program in 2011. She has also a Kaufman-Skirball Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights.[2]
One of her areas of focus has been the offences of psychologists and other medical professionals who played a role in the USA's controversial torture programs.[1]
Popowski has been cited as an expert on the ethics of medical professionals aiding torturers.[3][4][5]
The Open Society Initiative invited Popowski to sit on a blue-ribbon Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers.[6]
In July 2010, Popowski filed a letter of complaint about Larry James, to the Ohio Board of Psychology, challenging his right to remain a certified psychologist, after the prominent role he played in helping to introduce torture to the standard interrogation tools used during the Presidency of George W. Bush.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Liz Mineo. Lessons from a post-9/11 world, Harvard Gazette, 2016-04-12. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. “Since 2009, when Popowski began working as a fellow at the HLS International Human Rights Clinic, she has advocated for torture survivors as part of a movement to seek accountability for U.S. torture through both state and international courts.”
- ↑ Deborah Popowski, Just Security. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. “Previously, she was a Kaufman-Skirball Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights.”
- ↑ Lauren Walker. U.S. DEFENDS ALLEGED ABUSES OF TORTURE TREATY TO U.N. BODY, Newsweek magazine, 2014-11-13. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. ““It’s is at the heart of everything,” Deborah Popowski, a clinical instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School and a member of Advocates for U.S. Torture Prosecutions said in an interview with Newsweek.”
- ↑ Lauren Walker. THE MAN WHO VOTED AGAINST BANNING PSYCHOLOGISTS FROM NATIONAL SECURITY INTERROGATIONS, Newsweek magazine, 2015-08-11. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. “In 2009, Harvard Law Professor Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski, then a fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, described an incident involving James at Guantanamo.”
- ↑ Bill Quigley, Deborah Popowski. When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home, truthout, 2009-10-29. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. (in English)
- ↑ Jeffrey Kaye. Are Politics Why IMAP Won’t Publish Until 2013 Their Report On Doctors and Torture?, The Public Record, 2012-06-25. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. (in English) “It’s a formidable listing of experts in medical abuse and torture and medical ethics. It includes anti-torture candidate for presidency of the American Psychological Assocation, Steven Reisner; physicians Vincent Iacopino and Brig. Gen. (ret.) Stephen Xenakis, who wrote a PLoS research article last year concluding that military medical personnel at Guantanamo “neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of intentional harm” of detainees; Physicians for Human Rights Chairman of the Board Robert Lawrence; former American Psychiatric Association president Steven Sharfstein; ethicist George Annas; Deborah Popowski from Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic, and a number of others.”
- ↑ Cornelius Frolik. WSU dean finalist for Missouri post: Protests surround retired Army colonel for his role at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib prisons, Dayton Daily News, 2013-02-01. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. “The complaint, which sought to revoke James’ license to practice psychology, was filed by human rights activists and psychologists, including Deborah Popowski, a clinical instructor for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.”
- ↑ Professional Misconduct Complaints, Harvard. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.
- ↑ Complaint Form – Larry C. James, License No. 6492, 2010-07-07. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.
External links
- Deborah Popowski. Beyond the APA: The Role of Psychology Boards and State Courts in Propping up Torture, Just Security, 2015-08-24. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.
- Deborah Popowski. The APA’s Watershed Move to Ban Psychologists’ Complicity in Torture, Just Security, 2015-08-11. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.