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.
Investigation of abuse of a detainee by a linguist hired by Titan Corporation during an interrogation in Karbala, Iraq. Investigation established that there was insufficient evidence to prove or disprove listed offenses. Titan interrogator's ...
Allegations of detainee abuse with photographs of nude and semi-nude detainees. Investigation revealed that photos were exposed by a combat Photographer, U.S. Army Magazine, in the performance of his duties as an imbedded reporter with the 3rd ...
Investigation into abuse of detainee who was captured on 01/04/04. Investigation found there was no probable cause to believe the offenses occurred as alleged; therefore, they are unfounded. The only names identified by this investigation were ...
Investigation into abuse of detainee upon capture and on a subsequent occasion in Baghdad. Detainee was captured on 03/19/04 by Iraqi Police and turned over to custody of Americans. He was taken to Al Azhamiyah base. Detainee's account of who ...
Investigation into death of an Iraqi male who was killed in Iraq by an American soldier. The investigation determined that the Sergeant who killed the Iraqi not commit the offense of murder and the offense of murder was not committed as initially ...
Investigation into death of an Iraqi male who was killed in Iraq by an American soldier. The investigation determined that the Sergeant who killed the Iraqi not commit the offense of murder and the offense of murder was not committed as initially ...
Investigation based on civilian contractor's allegation that he witnessed U.S. Marines abusing Iraqi detainees. In a sworn statement the contractor says he saw Marines place bags over an Iraqi prisoners' heads and strike him in the head with a ...
This memo issueing a reprimand for Obstruction of Justice is issued to a Major for his wrongfully impeding criminal investigation into drowning death of an Iraqi citizen in an incident know as the Tigris River Incident, Samarra, Iraq, January 3, ...
An investigation of detainee abuse that occurred while the detainee was being transported from Al Baghdadi to the Baghdad International Airport and then on to Abu Ghraib prison. The investigation established insufficient evidence to show ...
A detainee claims to have been assaulted while in custody at Camp Al Baghdadi. The detainee had his injuries substantiated and the conclusion of the report was that the detainee was abused. The report found that the detainee was handcuffed and ...
This document is a translated statement made by a detainee taken in to custody. Detainee describes abuse he received when taken in to custody at the Iraq/Saudi Arabia boarder. He said he was forced to exercise. He also stated to have been put in ...
This document is a sworn statement by a physician who examined a detainee who claimed to have been abused. The doctor concluded that the detainees injuries were consistent with his complaint of being abused.
Sworn Statements of two (2) US soldiers who were involved in the detention of a detainee who claims to have been abused while in custody. The soldiers give an account of the detainee being treated consistently with the Rules of Engagement and ...
CID Report outlines the timeline for the incident of alleged abuse of a detainee when he was taken in to custody on February 8, 2004. The detainee was on a list of individuals to be captured and was captured. He alleged that he was assaulted ...
CID Report describes the charges of aggravated assault, cruelty and maltreatment, and conspiracy being investigated. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Army memo to Navy NCIS requesting assistance in investigating CID Report #0841-04-CID259-80230. Details the basics of the above stated investigation into the alleged abuse of two prisoners. Includes the memos for transmittal of information, ...
CID Report Agent's Investigative Report details of investigation starting in 03/08/2004 when a detainee allegedly had been abused. Records the abuse described above and the successive interviews to determine the validity of the alleged abuse. ...
Army CID division requests help from the Navy's NCIS division in identifying the facilities where a detainees stayed, the men who interviewed them, etc. The Final Information Reports give very brief outlines of the hours put into the ...
CID Report with hand written Memos addresses an investigation into an alleged abuse and concludes that there was insufficient evidence to prove assault, but that cruelty and maltreatment occurred. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Report details the actions taken by the investigating agent for CID# 0212-04-0O259-80249. Detainee's statement alleges that when he was taken, his child was thrown into a wall and his wife hit in the back with a rifle butt. While held in ...
Army memo from CID to Army Detainee Abuse Task Force requesting assistance in investigating allegations of detainee abuse in connection with CID Report: 212-04-CID259-80249.
A CID Report with several Commander's reports relating to the investigation and punishment of soldiers involved in the drowning death of an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. Mr. Fadhil drowned after being ...
CID Report in to the Tigris River Incident, Samarra, Iraq, January 3, 2004. Charges were brought against ten (10) soldiers for their participation in the actions that led to the death of Mr. Fadhil and the cover up that took place after his ...
A CID Report with several Commander's reports relating to the investigation and punishment of soldiers involved in the drowning death of an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. Mr. Fadhil drowned after being ...
These documents are Rights Waiver Certificates executed by three (3) soldiers involved in an incident at the Samarra Bridge over the Tigris River in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. The soldiers were part of of the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry ...
A CID Report with several Commander's reports relating to the investigation and punishment of soldiers involved in the drowning death of an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. Mr. Fadhil drowned after being ...
Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report pertaining to the abuse of a detainee at an unknown location. The detainee alleged that he was forced to walk on hot pavement, punched and kicked all over his body, had his ribcage fractured, and was ...
CID report of investigation into the circumstances leading to a detainee entering a vegetative/comatose state. The report states that the detainee was apprehended on July 23, 2003 as a high priority target, and that he was detained in Kirkuk and ...
CID report in to the death of a detainee in US custody. The detainee was brought to the hospital on December 3, 2003 with blunt trauma to the head with bleeding in the brain (determined by CT scan) and died January 4, 2004. The attending doctor ...
CID report in to the death of a detainee in US custody. The detainee was brought to the hospital on December 3, 2003 with blunt trauma to the head with bleeding in the brain (determined by CT scan) and died January 4, 2004. This document contains ...
CID report of the death of a detainee. The decedent was a detainee at Camp Ganci, Compound 6, Abu Ghraib prison. On November 3, 2003 he was complaining of chest pains and while being escorted to the aid station he collapsed and went in to cardiac ...
Investigation into allegations that a detainee was abused while in custody of U.S. forces. Investigation established probable cause to believe the offense of Maltreatment of a Prisoner did not occur as reported. Conclusion: report of "cruelty and ...
Fax of a sworn statement which describes soldiers having photographs of naked female prisoners and being instructed by superiors to delete all such photographs from their computers in case of investigation. related to CID investigation. ACLU RDI 64.
Investigation into allegations of larceny, looting, failure to obey a general order, accessory after the fact and conspiracy. Case involves ten soldiers who allegedly stole $4,000 and 700,000 Iraqi dinars during a combat cordon and search of an ...
This CID investigation reviewed allegations of multiple occurrences of detainee abuse committed by a single soldier while stationed in Afghanistan. The investigation found that the soldier was investigated at the Command level and an AR 15-6 was ...
Military Police Report related to an Army CID investigation #0153-04-CID146-71446, alleging detainee abuse and reveling photographs depicting detainees being abused and mistreated. Investigation was initiated after a soldier's wife reported ...
Military Police Investigative Report in to allegations of a soldier in Afghanistan pointing a gun at the head of a restrained detainee. The soldier offered a statement in which he states 1) the gun was a BB gun and not his service weapon; and 2) ...
Military police report relating to a CID investigation into allegations reported in a May 2004 Playboy article entitled "Death and Dishonor". Soldiers quoted in the article alleged that soldiers assigned to the 1/15th Infantry Battalion had, ...
This Military Police Investigative Report is based on allegations of detainee abuse at Camp Red, Baghdad. The allegations are that soldiers hooded detainees; made detainees stand on bricks; and threatened them with being run over with a Humvee. ...
This Military Police Investigative Report is based on the death of a detainee while in custody during “Operation Stronghold”. The allegations concern the shooting death of Mohammed Sayari by a Special Forces team. The investigation revealed ...
Email with an executive summary of investigation into the death of an Iraqi enemy prisoner of war. Obeed Hethere Radad was confinded in an isolation cell with his hands secured. A guard claimed he thought Radad was trying to escape and shot him ...
Email with an executive summary of CID investigation into a Lieutenant Colonel's admission of issuing a death threat and firing his pistol next to the head of a detainee (an uncooperative Iraqi police officer suspected of being part of a plot to ...
Email containing an executive summary of CID investigation into allegations that a soldier threatened a detainee with a gun, fired the gun on the ground next to the detainee, and "butt-stroked" the detainee during a "knock-and-search" operation ...