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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Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1089
This 30 year-old male detainee engaged upon a hunger strike and refuses to eat or drink for unknown time. Dehydrated. Given an IV. Detainee was removed from his cell for medical treatment.
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1658
Medical report on a 26 year-old male Iraqi detainee at Abu Ghraib prison who broke his nose while playing soccer. There is no suspected foul play or abuse in the medical report or claimed by the detainee.
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1908
DOD Memo on detainee interrogation guidelines advises that all personnel are to treat detainees humanely. Physical torture, corporal punishment and mental torture are not acceptable interrogation tactics; neither is withholding basic human needs; ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Brittain P. Mallow
Brittain P. Mallow
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3629
DOS cover sheet from Amnesty International, Irene Khan, requesting to have the document passed along to Colin Powell.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4856
The Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center's interrogation standing operating procedures, among other rules and principles, it provides an interrogation code of conduct.
Oct. 02, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 15
Two NCOs and two enlisted men from B Company, 1/36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division severely assaulted several detained youths while the detainees' heads were covered with sandbags and their hands restrained with flexi-cuffs. The ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Forced grooming, Other
Oct. 02, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 988
Autopsy Number: 03-366-B. According to reports, other detainees brought this Iraqi male detainee to the gate. He had apparently complained of chest pain during his detention. He appeared to have been dead for some time. Cause of Death: ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Wathik Salah Mihdy
Oct. 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5161
This DOD memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. The memo outlines various interrogation approaches when dealing with security internees.
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Isolation
Oct. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1126
The memo is the recommendation that a First Lieutenant be allowed to resign from the military for the good of the service because he has lost the confidence of his senior commanders. He had a lapse in judgment and the memo states "[He] will be ...
Oct. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1659
Medical records on a 24 year-old Iraqi male detainee was brought to the detention facility hospital with an eye injury suffered one (1) month earlier. The diagnosis was a fractured nose and possible fractured and detached retina. There is no ...