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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Letter to the U.S. Mission from Theo van Boven, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture, requesting that the U.S. respond to previous correspondence concerning allegations of mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Fax cover sheet from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re: Correspondence Received from UNHCHR
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson
Fax cover sheet from Beth Ryley to June Carter-Perry re letter from Boven on torture.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
June Carter-Perry
State Department Cable stateing that the U.S. Mission received a letter from Theo van Boven re: Letter equesting to visit Guantanamo to investigate information regarding "the physical and mental integrity of persons held at the Guantanamo Bay ...
This document is a fax from Eric Schwartz, CEO of OHCHR to Amb. Moley forwarding a Letter from Betrande Ramcharan (CHR) to Lorne Craner requesting information re: juvenile detainees at Guantanamo including ages, nationalities and measures being ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Eric Schwartz
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley, Lorne Craner
Letter from Jeffrey De Laurentis to Asma Jahanglr responding to a letter Mr. Jahangir sent asserting that the U.S. operations in Iraq are subject to the Special Rapporteur's mandate. He states in his letter "U.S. military personnel are operating ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Asma Jahangir
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
This cable is from Stated Department Headquarters to the U.S. Mission in Geneva to give guidance to U.S. Amb. Jeffrey DeLaurentis in responding to U.N. Special Rapporteur Asma Jahanglr concerning a letter Mr. Jahanglr wrote to the U.S. about the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
This letter is from U.N. Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Asma Jahanglr to U.S. Ambassador Moley, the U.S. Permanet Representative of the U.S. to the U.N. in Geneva. the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Asma Jahangir
Kevin Edward Moley
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Fax cover sheet from S. Randi-Azarakhchi to Kevin Moley re press release by Boven on reports of abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Soussan Raadi-Azarakhchi
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Theo van Boven, U.N. Special Rapporteur issued press release expressing concern about reports of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of Iraqi detainees by United States of America and United Kingdom military forces serving ...
Dec. 30, 2004
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Theo van Boven