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.
On April 16, 2004, members of Marine Corps stopped and detained three (3) men who were transferred to the Division Interrogation Facility (DIF). On April 26, 2004 the DIF released the trio to the custody of Task Force 6-26. They were then ...
Marine Corps inquiry in to possible abuse of a detainee on April 13, 2004 at the Al Mahmudiya Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Iraq. Members of the guard force at the Detention Facility were accused of shocking a detainee using a power cord by ...
Marine Corps inquiry in to alleged detainee abuse based on statements related by medical personnel. The medical personnel claim the Marine being investigated stated that he injured his hand while punching a detainee. The inquiry found that it was ...
An inquiry in to the abuse of a detainee taken in to custody after a raid on a residence by the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (2/2). The captured Iraqi alleged that he was verbally and physically abused during the course of ...
During a raid, jointly conducted by U.S. Marine Corps personnel with the 24th MEU (SOC) and Iraqi National Guards (INGs), a weapons cache was found. It was alleged that ING personnel slapped the owner of the home during an interrogation and shot ...
U.S. Marine Corps investigation into death of Awayed Wanas Jabar. Jabar was taken in to custody on April 17, 2004. He sustained a head injury in an escape attempt. A doctor examined him and said he was “OK”. A guard witnessed Jabar take his ...
On June 23, 2003 Marines detained four Iraqi men for looting. The men were searched, stripped of their clothes (except for
their shoes and underwear), and then released. On June 28, 2003 fired upon and disabled a truck that attempted to speed ...
USMC Investigation into incident of abuse where a superior officer ordered a subordinates to take a detainees’ money, strip them naked to their underwear and release them in their underwear. Some soldiers protested. Investigator recommends ...
Response to attorneys for ACLU re: FOIA request. Attaches explanation of exemptions. Letter from Navy NCIS to Jennifer Ching of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter ...
Navy Criminal Investigative Service Officer asks about two brothers who were held in Iraq stating that when he saw them they looked "pretty shaken up (shivering from cold and laying on concrete all night). It appeared they had gone through a few ...
This memo is a report of a finding concerning a detainee's allegation that fellow detainees are beating and threatening to kill him has no substantiation, and that none of them considered him a spy. The report concluded that there was no evidence ...
This is a report form used by the U.S. Army to log and detail alleagtions of abuse. This report pertains to an allegation by one detainee that 6-7 other detainees have beaten him and accuse him of being a spy. The details are almost completely ...
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 600. One detainee accused another of communicating threats of physical harm and lying to interrogators. Two detainees were involved in a physical altercation the next day. Medical ...
Detainee allegation of abuse at the hands of his fellow detainees. The detainee claimed that he had been beaten by fellow detainees and had had urine thrown on him. No evidence was found to substantiate the claim.
A Detainee at Guantanamo reported that his fellow detainees beat him and threw urine upon him. This memo is an acknowledgment of the receipt of that complaint. This is related to ACLU RDI 616.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 604. Detainees threw urine/water/toilet paper at each other. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Two detainees fought in the recreation yard. Neither detainee was seriously injured by the fight. Following the fight, the detainees were put in orange uniforms and restrained with three-piece suits. Both underwent mental monitoring due to ...
A detainee in the left recreation yard began arguing with a detainee int the right yard. One of the detainees spit on the other. Action taken in response was complete loss of comfort items. The report records that the decision about complete ...
Detainee attacked another detainee in the recreation yard, under the direction of a third detainee who was secured in a shower cell adjacent to the yard. During the attack, the victim was compliant and did not fight back. When the attacking ...
One detainee spit on another because they were placed in the recreation yard together. Actions take in response were loss of comfort items for five days and segregation for five days.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 602. Detainees were involved in an argument and physical altercation that involved punching and throwing fruit. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of ...
Detainees threw water and feces at each other for over an hour. Actions taken in response were 10 days of complete segregation and 10 days of complete loss of comfort items.