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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Detainee alleged that he was abused while in custody of US forces at Camp Bucca. The detainee claims he was wrongly arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and had his money ($160,000US) stolen. Once released, detainee filed a complaint with the ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Sexual, General
Memo discusses the events surrounding the shooting deaths of two Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs) at Camp Bucca, Iraq on April 13, 2003. A Specialist and a Staff Sergeant with the 800th Military Police Brigade encountered numerous EPWs throwing ...
Detainee alleged that he was abused while in custody of U.S. forces. The detainee claims he was beaten, sexually assaulted and had his property stolen. Once released, detainee filed a complaint and told his story on Hardball with Chris Matthews. ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Nudity, Sexual, Other Humiliation
A soldier was found to be guilty of inappropriate action towards a Detainee at Camp Bucca by using disparaging words and displaying a "Star of David" necklace and expressing anti-Arab views. The soldier denied the accusations.
Apr. 18, 2005
Investigative File
Religious, Other, Other Humiliation
63 year-old male detainee diagnosed with traumatic osteoarthritis of right elbow, Constipation and Pitting Edema. This document is related to ACLU RDI 77. He was part of fourty-four Iraqi detainees who were allegedly abused by U.S. soldiers while ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
25 year-old male detainee was in a fist-fight, no abrasions anywhere, no lacerations, bruising. The detainee later claimed to have been assaulted by a Military Police Officer, but that allegation was proven to be unfounded. The incident is from ...
Medical records of several Abu Ghraib prisoners including a 25 year-old male detainee who attempted to hang himself. The report is related to CID investigation 0084-04-CID519-81169.
CID report of investigation into a non-fatal shooting inside Camp Bucca, Iraq during a prison riot on September 22, 2003. The investigation determined that the use of live ammunition and the subsequent non-deadly shooting of one of the detainees ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault

This letter pertains to an Iraqi colonel's claim that he suffered injuries when in U.S. custody on a U.S. Navy ship and at Camp Bucca, Iraq.  Specifically, he claims that while being processed on the ship for detention, he fell and was ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Letter
Physical assault, General
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