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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Dec. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2071
This Article 15 procedure was brought against a soldier who was present during an interrogation of a detainee at a jail facility in Iraq. The soldier was accused of punching the detainee with a closed fist; firing a weapon near his head; and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Article 15)
General, Assault/death, Family/others, Physical assault, Threat
Dec. 12, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3638
Letter from DOS in response to the recipient's previous letter expressing concern over the US' treatment of juvenile detainees. The letter from Pierre-Richard Prosper states that the "the United States . . . is treating young enemy combatants in ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 223
Report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of prisoners at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Two (2), Abu Ghraib prison.
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 224
Page 13 of 15 of a report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of prisoners at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Eight (8) in December 2003.
Dec. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 225
Report on the use of non-lethal means to disperse a melee of 30-40 prisoners fighting at Camp Ganci, Compound Number Three (3), Abu Ghraib prison.
Dec. 15, 2003 | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1911
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The detainee stated that he had never been to the US. He also stated ...
Dec. 15, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4112
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Waldo W. Brooks, Todd Buchwald and Others re: MEK Legal Considerations for DC with the comment "Some thoughts/comments".
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings
Dec. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2683
List of soldiers assigned to duty of Detainee Guard times with emails attached discussing the shift assignements.
Dec. 16, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2964
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee describes the prison uprising at Qala-i-Jangi Prision outside Mazar-E-Sharif between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1, 2001 where he witnessed several prisioners and one American killed. The ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Johnny Michael Spann
Dec. 16, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2965

Detainee describes Qala-i-Jangi prison uprising outside Mazar-e-Sharif, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 2001. Detainee states he was shot, but does not state by whom.