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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DOS Cable from the US Embassy New Delhi, India to DOS Washington, re: Media Reactions June 17-19, 2006. The Cable includes sixteen (16) news articles from Indian New outlets and features the headline Global War on Terror, with several news ...
This is a DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with letters exchanged between the family of a Saudi detainee and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James C. Oberwetter. The letter from Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, brother of a ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
James C. Oberwetter
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy Damascus, Syria concerns the media reaction in Damascus to US policy and other matters, June 2006.
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
Interview of soldier by a Special Agent of the DIA Office of Inspector General. The soldier reported that ineffective interrogation techniques were being used by the Task Force. It is alleged in this interview that suspected detainees were being ...
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib Prison. It is reported that Mr. Al-Zubaydi suffered from cardiac ailments, including cardiac ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
This is a CID investigation into the death of Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi, a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Al Dulaimi became ill while in custody. He was brought to the camp medical facility ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkaderal Lohaybi, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), who died on March 30, 2006. Mr. Lohaybi was found unconsciousness and brought to the camp hospital via medics, where he arrived unconscious, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Eid Abbass
An autopsy report for Hamed Ali Mohamed, a 53-year-old Iraqi civilian detainee who was "reportedly ... assaulted by fellow detainees." The autopsy states the cause of death to be "multiple blunt force injuries ... received in unclear circumstances."
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Hamed Ali Mohaimed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a.k.a. Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi, 52 y/o Iraqi Male, Hamdani, Iraq, June 8, 2006. Cause of Death: Multiple Gunshot Wounds; Manner of Death: Homicide.
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Ismael Hamid Ali, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, who collapsed while playing volleyball. It is reported that after collapsing, Mr. Ali was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Ismael Hamid Ali
A CID investigation into the death of Johar Nasir Hammeed, an Iraqi national who died while in custody at the 48th Brigade Combat Team, Brigade Internment Facility (BIF) at the Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. Hammeed was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Hassan Hadan Rakad, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib Prison. It is reported that Mr. Rakad suffered from cardiac ailments, including cardiac arrests ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hassan Hadan Rakad
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mana Shaman Turki Alutaybi, a.k.a. Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Tabi, along with Ali Abdullah Ahmed and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
This is a Memo from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General (IG) to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The memo is intended to inform the DCIs that the OIG has completed an investigation regarding the death of Iraqi detainee Abid Hamad ...
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
John L. Helgerson
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Ali Abdullah Ahmed, a 21 year old Yeminis male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Ahmed, along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Yasser Talal al Zahrani each ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Ali Abdullah Ahmed, a 21 year old Yeminis male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Ahmed, along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Yasser Talal al Zahrani each ...
Aug. 28, 2008
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is a Memo from John Helgerson, Inspector General (IG) to Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The Memo states that the contents is a Final Report.
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
John L. Helgerson
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
This is a CID investigation into the death of Monder Mahmoud Abdulkaderal Lohaybi, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), who died on March 30, 2006. On the morning of March 30th, Mr. Lohaybi was found unconsciousness and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkaderal Lohaybi
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Yasser Talal al Zahrani, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Zahrani, along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Yasser Talal al Zahrani
This is a CID investigation into the death of Three (3) unknown Iraqi detainees supposedly killed by being deliberately run over by US forces as an act of Murder. The investigation did not find any evidence to substantiate the claim. It is ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ismail Hamid Ali, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on May 25, 2006. Mr. Ali was playing volleyball in the camp yard when he was witnessed to suddenly ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismael Hamid Ali
This is a CID investigation into the death of Taha Turki Labaih who died while in custody the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on March 7, 2006. Mr. Labaih collapsed in the TIF compound. It is reported that Mr. Labaih ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Taha Turki
This is a CID investigation into the death of Tha'ir Kaduri Salman, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on May 28, 2006. Mr. Salman was playing volleyball in the camp yard when he was witnessed to ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Tha'ir Kaduri Salman
This is the Autopsy Report of Amer Ibrahim Mussa-Muhammed, Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Mussa-Muhammed was found in the detainee barracks with a string tied around his neck, no signs of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Amer Ibrahim Mussa-Muhammed
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Ibrahim Ismail, a detainee who died at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Ibrahim was admitted to the BCCF on May 26th, and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ibrahim Ismail
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 is a CID investigation into the death of Raad Kairy Hammid, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), who died on February 14, 2006. Mr. Hammid was admitted to the camp hospital on February 6, 2006 after suffering a ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Raad Kairy Hammid
This is a DOD OIG review of 13 senior-level investigations of detention and interrogation that were initiated as a result of allegations of detainee abuse made in 2004. The purpose of the OIG review "was to evaluate the reports to determine ...
On 24 Dec 2003 American forces raided a house in the Slaikh Alrabee neighborhood of Baghdad. The men inside were taken in to custody with blindfolds and cuffed behind their backs. The men allege that during their arrest they were abused by being ...

An OLC memo from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo analyzing whether certain conditions of confinement used by the CIA in covert overseas facilities are consistent with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.  The conditions are: (1) ...

A letter providing legal advice regarding whether the conditions of detention at certain oversears CIA facilities are consistent with the applicable standards of the DTA.  It concludes that the conditions of confinement did not constitute ...

This August 31, 2006 OLC memo from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo discusses whether particular "standards conditions of detention" at certain CIA facilities located overseas are consistent with the applicable standards of the Detainee Treatment Act.
Legal Memo
Steven G. Bradbury
John A. Rizzo
John A. Rizzo, Steven G. Bradbury
This letter from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo memorializes the advice that Bradbury gave to Rizzo regarding whether the conditions of confinement used by the CIA in its covert overseas facilities are consistent with common Article 3 of the 1949 ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Letter
Steven G. Bradbury
John A. Rizzo
Steven G. Bradbury, John A. Rizzo
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other
A letter providing legal advice regarding whether the conditions of detention at certain overseas CIA facilities are consistent with the applicable standards of the DTA. It concludes that the conditions of confinement did not constitute "cruel, ...
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad ...
Letter
John L. Helgerson
Pete Hoekstra
John L. Helgerson, Pete Hoekstra
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Senator Pat Roberts, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad Mahawish ...
Letter
John L. Helgerson
Pat Roberts
John L. Helgerson, Pat Roberts
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad ...
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Congresswoman Jane Harman, the ranking Democratic member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death ...
Letter
John L. Helgerson
Jane Harman
John L. Helgerson, Jane Harman
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the seventh modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to $43,826,609 ...
Document is an excerpt from AR 27-10-Chapter 21, it "prescribes policies and procedures for implementing title VIII, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987."
DOD PowerPoint presentation describes types of detainees, detainee flow, timeline of detention. Describes holding authority, required documentation.
This is a CID investigation into the death of Hassan Hadan Rakad, a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Rakad became ill while in custody, and was brought to the camp medical facility for a Hernia ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hassan Hadan Rakad
A CID investigation found that Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi who died at Abu Ghraib prison hospital ward after suffering difficultly breathing and chest pain while in detention. Mr. Al-Zubaydi was the former President and Director of the President's ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ahmed Salih Khtheer, a detainee shot following a roadside stop and search in Samarra, Iraq on January 6, 2006. A US Army patrol operating out of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Brassfield-Mora, Samarra, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmed Salih Khtheer
Physical assault, General
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a beating he received by Iraqi Police (IP) following his arrest and detention at the Echo Company Forward Operating Base (FOB) Haditha, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a beating he received by Iraqi Police (IP) following his arrest and detention at the Echo Company Forward Operating Base (FOB) Haditha, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General