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 letter from Lt. General McKiernen directs action on the charges against Sergeant McKenzie. Specifically, the charges are referred for trial by a General Court-Martial.
July 01, 2005
Legal Memo, UCMJ (Court-Martial)
David D. McKiernan
David D. McKiernan, Scott A. McKenzie
Article 32 Proceeding Charge Sheet for charges against Scott McKenzie for his role in abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. The charges are: 1) dereliction of duty; 2) maltreatment of detainees (three counts); 3) aiding and abetting in ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Article 32 Proceeding Charge Sheet for additional charges against Scott McKenzie for his role in abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. The additional charges are: 1) obstruction of justice; and 2) attempt to impede investigation.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie, David D. McKiernan
This document is a reciept of the delivery to Sgt. Mckenzie of official records and trial record delivered.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
39-A Proceedings re: Transcript of Arraignment for Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie. This transcript is the procedural setting of trial date and assignment of attorneys for Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
This is the Investigators report pursuant to the appointment order for the investigating officer to investigate and make a recommendation as to any charges or offenses to be made against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie for his role in detainee abuse ...
July 01, 2005
Investigative File, UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Article 32 Proceeding Charge Sheet for charges against Scott McKenzie for his role in abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. The charges are: 1) dereliction of duty; 2) maltreatment of detainees (three counts); 3) aiding and abetting in ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Scott A. McKenzie
Physical assault, Threat
The document is part of the Article 32 Proceeding charge package against Sgt. Scott A. McKenzie. It lists grammatical changes to be made to transcripts by page and line.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
This Article 32 Proceedings concerns an accusation of an incident of detainee abuse at Camp Bucca. Iraq. The subject of the hearing is Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie, a female Master Sergeant and a Specialist accused of knocking down, punching and ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, General, Stress positions
This memo is the appointment order for an investigating officer to investigate and make a recommendation as to any uncharged offenses against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie for his role in detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, except for minor ...
July 01, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Scott A. McKenzie, Janis Leigh Karpinski
This document is the continued transcript of the Article 32 proceeding against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie. This transcript picks-up after a recess in the hearing. It starts at 8:00 am on September 1, 2003 and recesses again at 5:05 pm on ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
This document is part of the transcript of the Article 32 proceeding against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie. The transcript starts in the middle of counsel's questing of a witness, and concludes with the proceedings being recessed.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
This document is the Charge Sheet against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie for his Court Martial on abusing Iraqi detainees. It includes the charges; Articles of the UCMJ he is accused of violating; details of the charges; Sgt. McKenzie's plea to each ...
July 01, 2005
Legal Memo, UCMJ (Court-Martial)
David D. McKiernan
Scott A. McKenzie
Face slap or insult slap, Walling, General, Assault/death, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Other Humiliation, Physical assault, Threat
This is the transcript of the Article 32 Proceeding investigating the charges of detainee abuse committed by Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie and three other soldiers of detainees as they arrived at Camp Bucca on May 12, 2003. The charges include ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Physical assault, Sexual
Court Martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie, of the 320th MP Battalion at Camp Bucca, Iraq. Charged in relation to incident involving McKenzie abusing Iraqi prisoners of war when they were transported to Camp Bucca. He was one ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
Lists all relevant dates of the charges and Court Martial against SSG Scott McKenzie
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier verbally harassed a detainee and splashed a detainee in the face with Pine Oil. The proceeding found the allegations were substantiated and that the responses of the ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Jay W. Hood
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
This Article 32 Proceeding pertains to charges brought against four (4) soldiers for causing the drowning deaths of two (2) Iraqis in the Tigris River outside Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004 by forcing them in to the river. The soldiers were ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Physical assault
Article 15 Proceeding against a soldier who used pepper spray on a detainee after the detainee threw a liquid of unknown substance from his cell on the soldiers. The Soldier states that the detainee threw a cup of liquid once, and then was ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Physical assault, Other
This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier who punched a detainee about his body with his fist after the detainee was already shackled. The soldier also faced charges of dereliction of duty by failing to secure the ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault
Investigation into incident where a soldier of the 239th MP Company sprayed a detainee with a water hose. If found guilty, soldier would be punished at the least with a reduction to the grade of E-3, and seven days restriction. The circumstances ...
June 24, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Use of water, Water dousing
This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier who punched a detainee in the mouth at Guantanamo hospital when the detainee spit at the MPs. The incident was reported in sworn statements by the soldiers present as follows: ...
June 24, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Mash Alawad Alhabiri
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap
This Department of Defense memo is to address questions that may arise from the release of the Schlesinger Report and Navy Inspector General Admiral A.T. Church's review of detainee operations at Guantanamo. The memo includes a brief description ...
June 24, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Albert T. Church, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller
Water dousing, Sexual, Forced grooming, Use of water, Other Humiliation
This Commander’s Inquiry in to an incident at the Guantanamo Bay hospital facility where a detainee became violent and attempted to assault military personnel by tossing a jar of urine upon them and using a metal chair by throwing it at the ...
Male Iraqi National, 75, collapsed and died during transport to a facility hospital. Circumstances of death: The detainee at the Central Baghdad Detainee Facility (Abu Ghraib) on 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
Detainee Abduhl Kaddim Altia died while at Abu Ghraib prison. The circumstances of death: Died while in US custody in Abu Ghraib prison. Detainee complained of chest pain to his son and then collapsed." Iraqi male, 64 years old (1940 DOB listed), ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Abduhl Kaddim Altia
Circumstances of death are described as "died in US custody approximately 72 hours after being apprehended...physical force was required during his initial apprehension during a raid. During his confinement, he was hooded, sleep deprived, and ...
Male Iraqi National, DOB: January 1, 1960. Circumstances of death are described as: "[t]his 44 year old male, an Iraqi National, was apprehended by US Forces in Kirkuk, Iraq after he and two accomplices fired on coalition forces with rocket ...
Medical records of a 50 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to the abdomen and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries, ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, General

Circumstances of death: "This believed to be 61 year old male Iraqi civilian was a detainee of the U.S. Armed Forces at the Detention Central Collection Facility, Tikrit, Iraq when he was discovered deceased in his bed... The decedent ...

Medical report of Iraqi detainee, including a Radiological report. Medical conditions included, gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with g gunshot wound to the abdomen and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries. The ...
This document is a partial (three pages) of laboratory results for an unknown person with an unknown medical condition.
Medical record on a 50-Year-Old Iraqi Male, Foreign Civilian, Baghdad, Iraq re: Gunshot Wounds to Abdomen; Bilious Ascites. The medical records do not state how the gentleman received his injuries and does not give any personal information on ...
Contents redacted. Appears to be a medical document.
Medical report of 50 year-old Iraqi male suffering from the effects of a gunshot wound to the stomach. Medical procedures included, resection of transverse colon; exploratory Laparotomy; colonoscopy; and endoscope of Small Intestine. Follow-up ...
Medical report of a 50 year-old Iraqi male detainee with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and torso.
Medical records of a 20 year-old Iraqi male civilian admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to his pelvis and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the gentleman received his injuries. The medical report ...
Medical record of Iraqi male 50 years-old. Medical conditions included, trauma to skin, acute respiratory failure and an open wound.
This is a partial medical record of an unknown Iraqi male or unknown age. The records state the injury of the detainee is a Gunshot wound, but does not state how the injury was incurred.
Medical record of an unknown person Dx: Right Nephrectomy; Iteal Conduit
Blood transfusion reports. These medical records from numerous detainees during March of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another.
Partial medical record of medication and treatment of an unknown person with an unspecified medical condition. The medical records do not state how the person received his/her injuries/illness and does not give any personal information on the ...
Medical report of Iraq detainee. Medical conditions included, gunshot wound to pelvis; laceration of bladder and neck. Medical treatments included, right nephrectomy.
Medical record of a 21-Year-Old Iraqi Male, Detainee, Baghdad, Iraq re: Gunshot Wounds to Pelvis. Medical conditions included, failed/damaged right kidney; large pelvic hemotoma; laceration of neck.
Medical records of an Iraqi male of unknown age. Partial medical records beginning with, "ICU Admission Orders." Medical conditions included, Pneumonia and blast injury. Sounds similar to patient from RDI 1266. The records do not state how the ...
Medical report of "Foreign National-POW/INTERN" of an unknown age or nationality. The file is of the detainee's lab results. Medical conditions included, shrapnel to the Left Upper Quadrant (LUQ)abdomen and pneumonia. X-ray images are included. ...
Medical report of an Iraqi detainee. Medical conditions included, gunshot wounds. Medical treatment provided included, blood transfusion.
Medical Report: Medical Record of Iraqi Male re: Pneumonia and Blast Injuries. This document is an incomplete record of the gentleman's medical record and treatment.
Medical records of Iraqi detainee, confirmed to be an Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW). Medical conditions included, gunshot wound to the right knee, causing a fracture and a concussion. The additional reports in the record state that the detainee ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault