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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Detainees punched each other in the recreation yard. Actions taken in response were loss of comfort items for five days and complete segregation for 10 days.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 606. Detainees punched each other in the recreation yard. Actions taken in response were loss of comfort items for five days and complete segregation for 10 days.
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 comfort items.
One detainee hit another detainee with a closed fist. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Detainees threw urine/water/toilet paper at each other. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
A detainee assaulted and spit at another detainee while they were in the shower and recreation yard. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Detainees were involved in a physical altercation after previous threats of physical harm. Actions taken against both detainees were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Two detainees got into a scuffle following a headed discussion. Other detainees in the bay separated the two and led one into the latrine to calm him down. Upon exiting the latrine, the detainee threw a flip flop at another detainee. When the ...
Report of fight between two detainees in the recreation yard which included punching, beard-grabbing, and kicking. One detainee claimed that the other was interrupting his prayers and verbally assaulting him by talking about his family. Actions ...
Second report of incident reported in ACLU-RDI 596. Recorded action taken in response to incident is the issuance of a 508.
Report of one detainee throwing water on another. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is associated with Al Qaida and the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The Tribunal claimed that the detainee was an employee ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Nechle
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation
Document records that there have been 17 allegations of abuse at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002 that have been reported through CSRT process.
Nov. 30, 2005
Other
Other
Memo relating six records of detainee-related offenses between October 2001 and July 2004 at Guantanamo Bay. Some facts and all names are redacted. Accusations in the records are of assault, battery, verbal harassment, dereliction of improper ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was the bodyguard of the individual responsible for killing a Red Cross member near Khahwali Kot. Detainee denied being a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Ghafaar
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was a member of the Taliban with military experience against the Russians. Detainee denied all allegations and called two ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Saida Jan
Physical assault, General

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question had been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he assisted a member of the terrorist organization Hezb-E-Islami Gulduddin who had plans to plant a bomb at a U.S. military base in ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Mustafa Sohail
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was responsible for rocket attacks against the United States forces from the Laywan Mountain. Detainee denied being a member of ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Habib Rahman
Physical assault, General, Threat, Use of phobias, Nudity

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against the United States by attacking the Shkin firebase. Detainee claimed that he had been tricked ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Nasir
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was trained in using a Kalashnikov rifle and heavy artillery and weapons in an Al Qaida camp. Detainee denied all allegations ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud al Hami
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant because he attended al Qaida's al Farouq training camp, appeared in an al Qaida movie about the USS Cole bombing, attended a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Ibrahim Mahdi Achmed Zeidan

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against coalition forces. Detainee was captured in Khowst, Afghanistan with [redacted] Pacha Khan, a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Khandan Kadir
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is affiliated with the Taliban and Al Qaida, having stayed in Al Qaida guesthouses and undergone military training at Camp ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
Physical assault, General

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he fought against coalition forces with the Taliban or Al Qaida. Tribunal also found that the detainee supported Al Qaida training ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Moazzam Begg
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against coalition forces. Tribunal further showed that the detainee conducted surveillance of buildings, ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mamdouh Ibrahim Ahmed Habib
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported Al Qaida and Taliban forces, including receiving weapons training and participating in military operations against the ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
Physical assault, General

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported the Taliban or Al Qaida and that he traveled to Afghanistan with the purpose of training at an Al Qaida camp. ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Nawaf Fahad al Otaibi
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported Al Qaida forces against the coalition. Detainee is a Syrian national who trained in Afghanistan for military combat ...

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported Al Qaida against the coalition, undergoing training at the Al-Farouq camp in Afghanistan. Detainee claims that he was ...
Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Other
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is a member of Al Qaida. He is charged with traveling to Afghanistan to participate in Jihad and with participating in military ...

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was part of or supported Al Qaida against coalition forces. Detainee is a Syrian national who traveled to Afghanistan in 1999 ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abd al Nasir Mohammed Abd al Qadir Khantumani
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant. He admitted that he was a driver for Usama Bin Laden and served as one of his armed bodyguards, though he claimed that such activity was ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an "Enemy Combatant" and that he willingly joined the Taliban and fought against American armed forces. The detainee denied all allegations against him, ...

Nov. 30, 2005
Legal Memo, CSRT
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and is a member of or affiliated with Al Qaida and the Taliban. He was found to have traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Syria ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Aziz Saad al Khaldi

A document production cover letter from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA). The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some ...

This case involves two Marines posing for pictures with an Enemy Prisoner of War while they were guarding him. In the pictures, the two Marines are aiming their M-16 service rifles in close proximity at the EPW, who had recently received medical ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS)
Other Humiliation

NCIS received a request for assistance from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) to "locate and conduct a victim interview" of a Guantanamo detainee regarding an assault that was alleged to have taken place at Bagram ...

Aug. 22, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS)
Physical assault, General

NCIS report on the results of investigative efforts regarding allegations of abuse made by two detainees, Ali and Hassan, in Iraq. In one case, a detainee captured on February 8, 2004, alleged he was assaulted while being held at "al ...

Nov. 29, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS)
Physical assault, General, Other

Investigation into an incident in which two marines, both from 1st Medical Battalion, Combat Service Support Group-15, posed for photographs while pointing their M-16 service rifles at an enemy prisoner of war, whom they were assigned to guard ...

Email exchange regarding the death of a civilian named Naeem Sadun Hattab who was detained in Iraq. Includes e-mail from a person at NCIS listing seven suspects in the death of Mr. Hattab. A reply to that email from OSD refers to a memo for ...
Aug. 22, 2005
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Naeem Sadun Hatab
These are emails between Navy NCIS investigators discussing the death of a detainee in Iraq and who will lead the investigation. The death involved a US Marine detachment and the question was if Army CID or Navy NCIS would lead. Army CID is lead ...
These emails are between Navy NCIS investigators tracking down a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler and follows-up to ask whether CID HQ came through with any information on the MWD who gave statement to Army CID but wasn’t implicated in any ...
These emails are from an Army CID officer concerned about where to conduct an autopsy in the event a detainee dies in custody. The question was over transporting the body to the United States and what ramifications that might have. The email ...
These emails are between Army CID and Navy NCIS investigators concerning the policy for reporting criminal investigations during contingency operations and specifically hostile fire deaths. The Army CID Investigator provides the Standard ...
Navy NCIS Middle East Field Office announces temporary deployment of special agents from Bahrain to Iraq because "case load is exploding, high visibility cases are on the rise." A later email attaches the latest case control summary for open Team ...

This is a List/Chart of fifteen (15) pending cases for NCIS Team Iraq as of June 14, 2004.

These emails are between Army CID and Navy NCIS investigators concerning the policy for reporting criminal investigations during contingency operations and specifically hostile fire deaths. The Army CID Investigator provides the Standard ...
Secretary Rumsfeld's memo reiterates and clarifies procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in U.S. custody through reference to a series of previous directives. After a detainee dies, commanders must immediately report the death to the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
The Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service discusses manpower needs at Guantanamo and Iraq and case theory behind investigations, and states "We've held off initiating any action pending the ...
Series of emails regarding procedures to follow regarding bodies of deceased detainee at Al-Taqaddum Air Base ("TQ"). NCIS emails instructs recipient to "try to find that body, we’ll exhume if possible." In response to resistance to exhumation ...