After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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June 29, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1045
A 27 year-old male Iraqi detainee brought to Army hospital following arrest for theft. The Detainee complained of pain in ribs & shoulder; difficulty breathing; and pain in lower left abdominal. Exam showed a possible broken collar bone, ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General
June 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1330
This document contains the medical records from numerous detainees during the summer and Fall of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another. However, the records cover the medical treatment of numerous Iraqi ...