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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Dec. 28, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 495
Abu Malik Kenami was detained in Iraq on December 5, 2003. He was interrogated and then placed in to the general population at Abu Ghraib prison. From the 5th of December through the early morning of 9th of December Kenami was not obeying the ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Photograph, Interview (Statement)
Abu Malik Kenami
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Forced physical training
Dec. 28, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2569
Dicusses events leading to the detention of a "financier of resistance in Azimiya," who was "detained for being one of the overall coordinators of anti-Coalition activities." The detainee and two of her brothers were all arrested.
Dec. 29, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1912
The detainee was interviewed at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The detainee states that he was picked-up by American and Afghani soldiers. After he was questioned about being a member of the Taliban and when he could not provide a logical ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
Dec. 30, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1206
Army press release detailing the non-judicial punishmment for three soldiers found guilty of abusing four Iraqi detainees.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ennis Whitehead, III
Dec. 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2972
This FBI memo condenses an interview conducted with a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee related his experience when captured in Afghanistan, including seeing an American (supposedly John Walker Lindh) while in detention. He ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Assault/death, Cramped confinement, Threat
Dec. 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2974

FBI Letterhead Memo (LHM) in response to DoD (CITF) (RFA)- FBI agents' interview of an unnamed detainee who recalls being at the Qala-e-Jangi prison facility during the prison uprising against US Forces. Identified several individuals in the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Jan. 01, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 136
Report of investigation into an undetermined death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem, also known as Abu Malik Kenami, a detainee held in a military police battalion in Mosul, Iraq. According to the investigation, Abdul Kareem was found unresponsive ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Abu Malik Kenami
Jan. 01, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2011
This document is a completed Claim form by family of an Iraqi citizen who died in U.S. custody. The gentleman was arrested on April 25, 2003. On November 11, 2004, the family visited him at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) and his health was ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Letter
Physical assault
Jan. 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 603
One detainee hit another detainee with a closed fist. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Jan. 02, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2056
This Army memo by a Chief Warrant Officer is regarding capture of person during Operation Reindeer Games, who was later released because he worked for an NGO.