Deborah Popowski

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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. 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.”
  2. Deborah Popowski, Just Security. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. “Previously, she was a Kaufman-Skirball Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights.”
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.”
  5. Bill Quigley, Deborah Popowski. When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home, truthout, 2009-10-29. Retrieved on 2016-04-12. (in English)
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.”
  8. Professional Misconduct Complaints, Harvard. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.
  9. Complaint Form – Larry C. James, License No. 6492, 2010-07-07. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.

External links

  1. 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.
  1. Deborah Popowski. The APA’s Watershed Move to Ban Psychologists’ Complicity in Torture, Just Security, 2015-08-11. Retrieved on 2016-04-12.