William Hopkins

William Hopkins is a senior consultant psychiatrist who has worked at Freedom from Torture since 2001. He is an acknowledged contributor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office manual on the “Investigation and Documentation of Torture’. His areas of expertise include medical complicity in torture.

Not just a job: the complicity of health and medical personnel in post-9/11 torture is a stain on my profession

Psychologist and architect of the CIA torture programme James Mitchell gave evidence last week. A consultant psychiatrist at Freedom from Torture decries the “shameful complicity” of health professionals.

By William Hopkins

/ 27 Jan 2020

Not just a job: the complicity of health and medical personnel in post-9/11 torture is a stain on my profession