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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Oct. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4018
This State Department cable is a set of talking points to address the issue of a cameraman who is allegedly detained at Guantanamo. The cable refers to two (2) letters; 1) September 16, 2002; and 2) June 4, 2002 from a redacted source asking the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Jonathan Scharfan, Ross Hyams
Oct. 20, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4019
State Department cable re: formal request for access to the Guantanamo detainees of a certain nationality (not disclosed). The cable states: "In a 10/20 meeting at the MFA, DCM informed MFA Americas Desk Director of [U.S. government's] to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Stephanie J. Molnar
Feb. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4020
State Department cable advising Washington that the U.S. Ambassador Farish received a Letter dated February 8, 2002 from a law firm representing a detainee held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo. The letter requests access to the detainee, a meeting ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
William Stamps Farish
Jonathan M. Crock
William Stamps Farish, IV, Jonathan M. Crock
Dec. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4021
State Department cable to Washington stating: "Mission has received a letter from the Special Rapporteur on Torture of the Commission on Human Rights requesting, for a second time, information on 'allegations of torture or ill-treatment' of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Jonathan M. Crock
Jonathan M. Crock, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Michael T. Peay
Dec. 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4022
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 02, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4023
Letter from UN Commission on Human Rights to U.S. Ambassador Kevin Edward Moley re: Request for Information on Detainee Treatment and Legal Status. The letter refers to Commission resolutions on torture and requests investigation into allegations ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven | Leandro Despouy | Paul Hunt
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4024
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 16, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4025
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Emily Willmott, Carl Newns, Linda Jacobson and Todd Buchwald re: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Reply with attachements (attachments not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Linda Jacobson | Todd F. Buchwald | Anne C. Brunson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Linda Jacobson, Todd F. Buchwald
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4026
State Department talking points memo on the status of detainees at Guantanamo provides information on the number of detainees held; the status of their case review; the U.S. is treating and will continue to treat all of the individuals detained ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
Nov. 07, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4027

Report of the International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Special OSCE Meeting on the Prevention of Torture, Vienna, 6-7 November 2003. The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization ...