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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May 27, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2644
Recommendation from an official of the Detention Review Authority regarding the status of a detainee. Classifies detainee as a "security detainee" and orders that the detainee be interned, based on information that detainee may have "participated ...
May 29, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2645
Letter addressed to a detainee, giving the basis for his detention (participation in attacks on Coalition Forces) and informing him of his rights (right to appeal under Art. 78 of Geneva Convention).
May 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2646
This Detainee Tracking form is for a redacted detainee listed as a "Security Internee" and "Interned". The detainee was captured in a raid on a village. He admits to being part of a Fedayeen cell, but claims he was only there to gather intel for ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2641
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2642
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2643
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2638
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2639
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2640
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2635
FOIA Referral Page. Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1