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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FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI Chart re: List of Personnel Who Toured Through Guantanamo. Names redacted.

DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet Blank Page

DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet Blank Page

CIA presentation entitled "Human Rights: Background & Current Practices." The presentation gives a brief historical overview of human rights and reviews important international organizations that protect human rights.
CIA copies of various Fourth Geneva Convention articles, including Article 147 (Grave Breaches), Article 49 (Deportations, Transfers, and Evacuations), Article 5 (Derogations), Article 68 (Penal Legislation), Article 78 (Security Measures, ...
CIA copy of 18 U.S.C. 2441: War Crimes. Document includes legislative history and analysis of the section.
CIA copy of excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," recounting a series of murders carried out for the purpose of selling corpses as cadavers.
Summary of CIA activities at the Abu Ghraib prison. A handwritten note marks the summary as "D/N Talking Points." Some of the bulleted paragraphs are redacted.
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
CIA background materials on Abu Ghraib, likely for presentation to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Table of contents includes "NE Background Summary," "DDO Talking Points and ...
Non-legal Memo
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush