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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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
May 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 496
AR 15-6 investigation into a suspected incident of assault. On November 29th, 2003 members of the 187th Infantry Regiment detained in Iraqi male for questioning. The soldiers took a video of themselves assaulting the detainee. The chain of ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Physical assault, Stomach/abdominal slap, Other Humiliation
Aug. 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 497
Investigation into three (3) instances of abuse: one in which a looter were stripped of his clothing and released from custody; another where an Iraqi was accidently shot; and a third in which a detainee was repeatedly hit in the head with a ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Physical assault, General, Nudity
Sept. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 498
Investigation into the abuse (hitting and kicking) of several detainees. The detainees were captured for supposedly threatening soldiers with weapons and making false passports. Includes sworn statements of soldiers and detainees.
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
Face slap or insult slap, General, Physical assault
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 499
Investigation into commands by officers to beat detainees. Sworn statements by soldiers and officers claim that such orders would have been made in jest, though some soldiers admit to having taken the orders seriously. Report does not make any ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Nov. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 500
Investigation into abuse during prisoner transfer. Finds that one handcuffed and blindfolded detainee was either allowed to fall or pushed from the transport vehicle, resulting in injury as he landed on his side on the ground; that two detainees ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
General, Other, Physical assault
Mar. 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 501
Investigation into four (4) allegations: 1) commander gave orders not to take POWs and kill all enemies whether they are fighting, injured, or surrendering; 2) a commander giving the order to kill an enemy WIA after an engagement; 3) illegal ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 502
Army Presentation re: 3rd Brigade Combat Team Detainee Cage Operations Operation Iraqi Freedom. Standard Operating Procedure and Forms for Detention, including staffing, intake, detainee property, detainee rules (no speaking, no written ...
Nov. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 503
This memo records the detention of one detainee and then details the Standard Operating Procedure and guidelines for 2nd Brigade Holding Area including meal schedules, transport, detainee punishment (limited to isolation and blindfolding), ...
Sept. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 504
This Army email is to update units who will handle detainees on their roles and responsibilities. It is required for all such deploying units. Discussion of guidance and schedules for pre-deployment training.
Mar. 23, 2005
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