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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Investigation into validity of statements by a soldier claiming to have been involved in the abuse and murder of Iraqi detainees on January 18, 2004, while he worked in the Intensive Care Ward, Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. An Investigation ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson

An investigation into the death of, Mohamad Abu Abbas (ISN US 91Z-20039C1), a detainee at Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. An agent's investigation report states that Mr. Abbas complained of chest pain, and was eventually taken to a medical ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
John Peterson, Thom Jones, Belinda Knight, Jacqueline J. Scott
Mohamad Abu Abbas
An investigation into the shooting death of two detainees, including Naif Sliman Amir, during a riot at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. The investigation concluded that the shooting of both detainees was justifiable and that the soldiers involved had ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Naif Sliman Amir
Physical assault, General

An investigation into the death on August 22, 2003 of Mohamed Tariq Zaid, a detainee at Armor Battalion Detention Facility, Baghdad, Iraq. The investigation states that Mr. Zaid was discovered lying on the ground with shallow respirations and ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Zaid Muhammed Tariq, Hamza Hassad Tawfeek Najm Byaty, Abed Mohammed Najem, Dahm Spah, Taleb Ehad Kazen

An investigation into the death of Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi (ISN 159756). On 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became unconscious. Resuscitation was initiated and continued during: transport to the facility hospital ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi

An investigation into the death of Basim Mohammed Hussein (ISN 11672), a detainee who died on July 12, 2003 at Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq.  The cause of death was determined to be from internal bleeding in the lungs due to cavitary ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Basim Mohammed Hussein

A report of an investigation into the cruelty, maltreatment, and aggravated assault of 44 Enemy Prisoners of War by ten U.S. soldiers (320th Military Police Battalion) who were escorting the prisoners to Camp Bucca, Um Qasr, Iraq. The ...

Report of investigation into the cause of death of Abbas Alwan Fadil, a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The autopsy and investigative report determined that the death was due to natural causes.
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Abbas Alwan Fadil
Detainee Abduhl Kaddim Altia, a diabetic, died at Abu Ghraib on May 22, 2004. An autopsy ruled the cause of death "natural" (Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease). His son, who was also detained at Abu Ghraib at this time, reported that two ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Abduhl Kaddim Altia
Investigation into an incident of two soldiers assaulting an Iraqi civilian who had been taken into custody of the US Army near the Iraq Museum of Military History, Baghdad, Iraq. The investigation established probable cause to believe that the ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death