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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Aug. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1640
Medical records of an 18 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen with associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received ...
Aug. 18, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1901
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay was conducted by the Air Force office of Special ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Other Humiliation, Religious
Aug. 18, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2792
Memorandum providing the Assistant Attorney General's office with recommendations regarding detainees scheduled appear before the Transfer Review Board. The contents are heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jerry R. DeMaio
Jerry R. DeMaio
Aug. 17, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1642
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with shrapnel wounds to his right thigh and knee with associated minor injuries to chest & abdomen. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the ...
Aug. 16, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 128
Investigation into an incident of two soldiers assaulting an Iraqi civilian who had been taken into custody of the US Army near the Iraq Museum of Military History, Baghdad, Iraq. The investigation established probable cause to believe that the ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 437
Army request for release of prisoner arrested and shot by mistake. States individual was transferred from military hospital as a detainee instead of being released. This is related to ACLU RDI 434; 435; 436; 437; & 4865.
Feb. 28, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 499
Investigation into commands by officers to beat detainees. Sworn statements by soldiers and officers claim that such orders would have been made in jest, though some soldiers admit to having taken the orders seriously. Report does not make any ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1216
E-mail discusses the compilation of a list of all detainees at Camp Bucca separated by offense. There are twenty-three (23) pages of detainee names sequentially listed by prisoner number, but all names redacted. ACLU RDI 1217 contains the ...
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1217
List of detainees in Iraq to be reviewed. All names redacted. This document is the attachment to ACLU RDI 1216.
Aug. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1638
Medical records of a 57 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen with associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received ...