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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July 10, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5907
This DOS Cable from the US Mission Geneva to DOS Washington contains a letter from Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, regarding the June 10, 2006 death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Legal Memo, Cable, Letter
Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5910
This Cable from DOS Washington to the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland contains a letter from US Sec. of State Colin Powell to the human rights group Amnesty International regarding detainees held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay Detention ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Colin L. Powell
May 13, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5911
This DOS Cable from the DOS Washington to the US Mission Geneva, Switzerland contains a communication to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This is the US's reply to ICRC's notes verbale of Jan 6, 2004 and Mar 25, 2004 and its ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Kevin Edward Moley
Jan. 06, 2011 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5913
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington describes the Pakistani news coverage of matters concerning US policy and matters of interest to the US government for January 11, 2006. Specifically, the Cable ...
Jan. 10, 2011 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5914
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington describes the Pakistani news coverage of matters concerning US policy and matters of interest to the US government for January 8-10, 2011. Specifically, the Cable ...
June 12, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5897
DOS Cable from the US Embassy Paris, France to DOS Washington re: Media Reactions June 10-12, 2006. This DOS Cable contains the following subjects covered in the French Press: 1) Guantanamo Suicides; 2) Middle East - Israeli Strikes - Hamas; 3) ...
June 12, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5898
This DOS Cable contains thirty-nine (39) news articles from Pakistani news papers that concern the DOS and cover issues pertaining to US interests for June 10-12, 2006. Summary of media reactions under the following headings: Aid cut to Pakistan, ...
June 12, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5899
This is a DOS Cable from the US Embassy New Delhi, India to DOS Washington re: Media Reactions, June 12, 2006. The Cable contains a summary of media reactions and includes the heading; Triple suicide at Guantánamo.
June 19, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5905
This is a DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with letters exchanged between the family of a Saudi detainee and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James C. Oberwetter. The letter from Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, brother of a ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
James C. Oberwetter
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi
June 21, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5906
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy Damascus, Syria concerns the media reaction in Damascus to US policy and other matters, June 2006.