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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This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Muhammad Qusay Khalid, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Khalid was admitted to the hospital after being assaulted by unknown ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Mohammad Qusay Khalid
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. Mr. Al-Sawai's body was found burred in a shallow grave on the camp grounds on August 12, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Marwan Taha Ahmed, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Ahmed was found in the Camp unconscious & unresponsive. Cause of Death: ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Marwan Taha Ahmed
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report of Sher Mohammed Khan, a detainee at the Regional Interrogation Facility (RIF),Salerno Firebase, Afghanistan. It is reported that while Mr. Khan was being processed in to the RIF he stated that he was bitten by a snake ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Haji Sher Mohammad
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of five (5) Iraqis during a raid on a house near Samara, Iraq. It is reported that as soldiers raided a house looking for certain specific insurgents when they shot the Iraqi ...
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mahmood, Samara, Iraq, Ahed Oid Latif, Kassim Karim Mahmood, Omar Al Nissani, Omar Karim Mahmood
Physical assault
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of an unnamed Iraqi male following a firefight. The Report states that on March 20, 2005, in the vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq, a man who was engaged with coalition forces ...
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq
Physical assault
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington describes the Pakistani news coverage of matters concerning US policy, and matters of interest to the US government for August 2006.
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
This Cable from DOS Washington to the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland contains a letter from US Sec. of State Colin Powell to the human rights group Amnesty International regarding detainees held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay Detention ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Colin L. Powell
This DOS Cable from the DOS Washington to the US Mission Geneva, Switzerland contains a communication to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This is the US's reply to ICRC's notes verbale of Jan 6, 2004 and Mar 25, 2004 and its ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Kevin Edward Moley