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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Feb. 08, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 6644
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the ninth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to "fully fund" the contract, thereby ...
Feb. 07, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5739
This is a NCIS investigation into the death of Ahmad Khalaf Adbal, a Syrian national who died during interrogation at Camp Al Asad Regional Detention Facility (RDF), on January 3, 2007. It is reported that Mr. Abdal was being questioned for ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmad Khalaf Abdal
Feb. 07, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5915
This DOS letter concerns the DOS's Accountability Review Board Review inquiry in to the Deaths of seven (7) Personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Oct. 28, 2011
Letter, Other
Harry K. Thompson
Feb. 04, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5737
This is a NCIS investigation into the death of Ahmad Khalaf Adbal, a Syrian national who died during interrogation at Camp Al Asad Regional Detention Facility (RDF), on January 3, 2007. It is reported that Mr. Abdal was being questioned for ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmad Khalaf Abdal
Jan. 25, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 4512
Redacted CIA document referencing enhanced interrogation techniques and waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Jan. 22, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5798
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Physical assault, General
Jan. 19, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5659
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Najim Mohammed Abbass Al-Zubaid a detainee who died at Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Al-Zubaidi was being treated for tuberculosis, but no other known illness'. The report ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Najim Mohammed Abbass Al-Zubaidi
Jan. 18, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5656
This is the Autopsy Report Autopsy Report of Muntasir Hamad Furayh Mehlawy, a detainee at Al Qailm, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Mehlawy was attacked by another detainee, and killed by strangulation. Cause of Death: Ligature Strangulation: ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy
Physical assault
Jan. 17, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5654
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Bnayyan Muhammad Hamad, a detainee who died at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Hamad was admitted to the TIF Camp hospital suffering from ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Bnayyan Muhammad Hamad
Jan. 16, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5655
This is the Autopsy Report Autopsy Report of Jamil Muhaisin, a detainee at Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Muhaisin suffered a heart attack on November 23rd while in detention. The Report states that medics responded and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Jamil Muhaisin