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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June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1053
A 17 year-old Iraqi male detainee, Basim Mohammed Hussein, complains of back pain after being beaten by coalition forces. Claims to have been beaten at a house near Al-Adamiya Palace. He was beaten for eight days, including having his head was ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Basim Mohammed Hussein
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, General, Use of electricity, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2067
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2068
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2156
Email includes the daily update for the Office of the Provost Marshall General discussing their operations and Military Police guidelines.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Stephen A. Cambone, Donald J. Ryder
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2157
Email includes an executive summary that discusses the need for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC) to assume responsibility over development of major DOD policies and plans related to ...
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2158
Emails discuss investigations surrounding the death of a detainee(s) in Bagram. Also, the original email seeks clarification on a paragraph that defines corporal punishment and sensory deprivation. [Contents redacted].
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2159
Emails discuss the National Defense Authorization Act of 2005.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2168
Email discusses plans to develop a joint publication on detainee operations, developed by the Army, Office of the Provost Marshall General and other agencies. The joint proposal will be a revision of the document developed by the Air Land Sea ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2172
This document is an exchange of emails concerning a Joint Publication on Detainee Operations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
June 09, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2761

List of people to be notified of indictment in CIA NC case.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
David E. Nahmias
Barry Sabin | Patrick Rowan | Christopher A. Wray
David E. Nahmias, Christopher A. Wray, Barry Sabin, Patrick Rowan, Bryan Sierra