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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Sworn statement by an Iraqi detainee, referring to abuse of the detainee and her brothers and sister at Adamiya. States, "I saw an Iraqi put a bottle in my brother's rectum. There were Iraqi people doing it and Americans watching. There were six ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Sworn statement by Chief Warrant Officer 2, an assistant detachment commander who participated in interrogations. This statement concerns a woman and her two (2) brothers who were captured in connection with anti-coalition attacks. One of the ...
Sworn statement by a medical sergeant. States, "I did not interrogate detainees. I was present for many interrogations.... I performed medical screenings on detainees all the time." Continues, "No detainee showed any sign of abuse and I never ...
Sworn statement by an intelligence Sergeant who also interrogated and screened detainees, describing the 2-3 FA BN detention facility and states that the two (2) brothers and sister detainees were held at the facility for 24 hours before being ...
These are email between CID officers investigating CID Report: 0841-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
CIA copy of a transcript of George W. Bush's speech on the U.N. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, emphasizing the conviction that "Torture is wrong no matter where it occurs" and that the United States must lead the fight to ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George W. Bush
This is a report of investigations conducted between June 11 - 18, 2004 on detention facilities and the training and accountability of the soldiers. The report finds that the facilities complied with Geneva Convention policies and except for ...
Sworn statement by US Navy Commander. Discusses detainee detention limits and extensions. States, "The facilities we maintained for detainee exploitation are austere but more than adequate." Makes no mention of abuse, and states, "The most ...
Sworn statement by a detainee who claimed to have served in the Iraqi Army as a technician. Detainee states that he was handcuffed and had a bag put over his head. He was held "for 17 days" with a bag over his head, "handcuffed to the floor." ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Dietary manipulation
Sworn Statement by an IP, who talks about investigations. States, "When I was a policeman, I did not arrest anyone.... I did not interrogate people and I did not interrogate people with the Americans."