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.
Report of the International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Special OSCE Meeting on the Prevention of Torture, Vienna, 6-7 November 2003. The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization ...
International Herald Tribune article by Johan Steyn entitled "Guantanamo: A Monstrous Failure of Justice" that is a report on a speech Lord Steyn gave at the 27th F.A. Mann Lecture. Lord Steyn condemns US treatment of detainees at Guantanamo.
Email from Robert Harris to Nina E. Schou, Gilda M. Brancado, Francis M. Gaffney, Katherine M. Gorove, JoAnn Dolan and Samuel M. Witten forwarding a letter from Kofi Annan on behalf of the Uighur community about the oppression of the Uighur ...
Emails discuss an OSCE meeting and the concerns of various human rights organizations over alleged torture and abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The original email has a report attached, which briefly discusses the death ...
Email mentions an attached report, entitled "Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Selected OSCE Participating States." [Document is not included].
Emails discuss pleas from human rights groups, like Amnesty International, urging the U.S. to not return Uyghur detainees back to China. The detainees are currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, there is fear that if they are returned the Uyghurs ...
Email includes a cable with the following subject: International Committee of the Red Cross delivers note verbale on 'rights and duties' of the U.S. as occupying power. Email is completely redacted.
Emails between Eric Pelofsky, Joshua L. Dorosin", JoAnn Dolan and Catherine Brown on a paper the Sec. of State concerning the Guantanamo detainees. The comments are "One minor suggestion" for attached "Secy's Appropriations Testimony." and ...
Emails between JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald and Thomas C. Krajeski concerning draft OSCE intervention on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. the final comments from Frank Gaffney ...
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Steve A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin with attachment entitled PG-GTMO. The comments are "In response to your request for anything official from the Dept on the stepped up review and release of gitmo ...
State Department talking points memo entitled: Guantanamo: U.S. Policy on Detainees - May 5, 2003. The memo states: A process is underway to reach a final determination on all detainees. Each detainee will be prosecuted or continue to be detained ...
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Ed Cummings and Joshua Dorosin forwarding an email from Carol Santos with two attachments and a request for editing/adding to attached documents on Afghan detainee issues for Sec. of State Powell's meeting with ...
Emails between Molly C. Phee, Joshua L. Dorosin and Virginia L. Bennett re: Points on Detainee Issues with attachment. Comments are: "Molly - I've prepared the attached points on the detainee issue and have sent to DOD and NSC for clearance. What ...
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin and Todd F. Buchwald re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Sees No Humanitarian Crisis. This email forwards a cable describing International Committee for the Red ...
State Department email from JoAnn Dolan to Jonathan B. Schwartz and Samuel M. Witten with a draft attachment and a comment "Attached is a draft IM on the court cases yesterday"
Press release/declaration by International Committee of the Red Cross' President, Jakob Kellenberger regarding the ICRC's position on the Iraq crisis.
Mr. Kellenberger reminds the U.S., Iraq and the U.K. of their obligations under the Geneva ...
Memo, among other things, describes the U.S. government's application of the Geneva Convention with respect to the War on Terrorism and differentiates the U.S. government's treatment of detainees from the Iraq's treatment of American detainees.
Press release from the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding the "chaos" in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. The ICRC urgently appeals to the Coalition forces and all other persons in authority to do everything possible to protect ...
This State department fax is a forwarding of a letter Sen. Kerry received from a constituent containing allegations of mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees. Parts of document unreadable.
State Department cable forwarding on to Washington a letter received from Louis Joinet, the UN Special Rapporteur of Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the deprivation of liberty at Guantanamo, and requesting information on the ...
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Prosper's March 10-11 Visit to Copenhagen for dialogue with Danish government. Includes summary of discussions of Guantanamo detainees, dialogue with NGOs, including questions of torture. Document has ...
State Department cable requesting guidance on responding to requesting information on two (2) detainees previously turned over to the U.S. and held at Guantanamo. The Country requesting the information was the country that turned their own ...
State Department cable announcing authorization to enter in to talks with other governments to take or receive their own citizens that are Guantanamo detainees for detention and potential prosecution in their home country. The cable is otherwise ...
State Department cable announcing authorization to enter in to talks with other governments to take or receive their own citizens that are Guantanamo detainees for detention and potential prosecution in their home country. The cable is otherwise ...
State Department cable concerning a meeting with Saudi officials where they discussed Iraq; the Guantanamo detainees; and Kuwaitis streaming in to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis expressed concern over the occupation of Iraq because Iraqi sovereignty is ...