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.
Emails discuss revisions to Army Regulation 109-8. Emails state that the revisions will provide clarification for ongoing detainee operations and includes recent policies from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Presentation discusses the task force's mission, identifies detainee operations issues and provides recommendations. Included in the slides is a map of the Abu Ghraib complex.
The information paper discusses the historical evolution and issues pertaining to Military Police units that oversee detainee internment/resettlement operations, including high risk detainees and enemy prisoners of war.
Document discusses the various plans of the Department of the Army. It states that the Department will assist Army Central Command (ARCENT) in developing and coordinating an integrated, multi-disciplined detainee operations assessment/assistance ...
Document summarizes and lists the recommendations made in the Jones-Fay Report. Included in the memo is a request for further investigation into CID case 0216-03-CID259-61211, an alleged sexual assault of a female detainee.
PowerPoint presentation entitled "Draft Army Detainee Operations and Detainee-Interrogation Operations Integration Plan." The slides include graphs and plans to improve the Army's detainee interrogation strategies, overall detainee operations and ...
DOD PowerPoint presentation on DOD enemy prisoner of war detainee program. The presentation provides an outline of the DOD's objectives policies with respect to the EPOW detainee program.
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Email includes PowerPoint slide of overall detainee deaths, the deaths are categorized according to whether the detainee died on or off a facility and the manner of their death.
Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report into allegations of assault, cruelty and maltreatment of a detainee by guards at Abu Ghraib. Among the detainee's allegations, he stated that a US Army Sergeant hung him by his arms from the bars of a ...
This report provides detailed information surrounding an incident during a riot at the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility, June 12, 2004, which resulted in the shooting death of a detainee and injuries to seven (7) others. The report provides a ...
Army memo discusses an AR 15-6 investigation into an attempted escape and a riot that resulted in the shooting death of one detainee and injuries to seven others. Memo also includes a list of those wounded during the incident.
The memo summarizes legal actions / reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes that it withheld bates pages 23329-23331 pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
The memo summarizes legal actions/reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
The executive summary discusses the Fay/Jones Report, which identified 29 soldiers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib; eleven of those identified were reserve soldiers. The memo refers to a matrix that includes the relevant ...
Document is an excerpt from AR 27-10-Chapter 21, it "prescribes policies and procedures for implementing title VIII, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987."
Executive summary lists the names of Army reserve military police soldiers who were all administratively discharged from the Army prior to their scheduled court-martial hearings for offenses committed at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
Record of UCMJ Article 15 proceedings relating to CID report 0035-03-CID259-6114. Allegation of misconduct was against a soldier for shooting and killing a detainee during a disturbance in the prison at Camp Bucca, Iraq. The report found that ...
Memo discusses the events surrounding the shooting deaths of two Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs) at Camp Bucca, Iraq on April 13, 2003. A Specialist and a Staff Sergeant with the 800th Military Police Brigade encountered numerous EPWs throwing ...
Emails discuss the handling of detainee death and abuse cases, authors comment on the investigations and different training techniques being used as a result of the reports and investigations. Included is an Associated Press article which ...
In December 2002, at the Bagram Detention Facility, two Afghan detainees died while in the custody of US forces. The deaths were determined to be a result of blunt force trauma. Based on the information contained in the document and the related ...
The executive summary, dated May 5, 2004, contains a table listing Military Police officers from the 377th Military Police Company who were flagged for various offenses. The pending investigations concern the deaths of two Bagram detainees ...
The document lists the names of four soldiers discharged prior to their court-martial hearings. The soldiers faced charges for abusing detainees at Camp Bucca, Iraq; their names, offenses and punishment/reprimand are listed in the document.
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes it withheld bates pages 23521-23523 pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
CID investigation of the death of a detainee in custody at Camp Cropper. On January 31, 2004 a detainee at Camp Cropper died of a brain hemorrhage from an unknown origin. The death was not considered homicide.
Investigation into death of detainee. Established probable cause to believe that several soldiers committed offense of assault against detainee, negligent homicide, cruelty and maltreatment, conspiracy and false statement. Detainee died when ...
A Time magazine article claimed that an Iraqi national taken in to custody along with other family members was the subject of cruel and humiliating treatment at the hands of US forces. The charges include physical and sexual abuse. However, the ...
CID report of investigation into allegations made by a detainee that, after his first arrested on April 25, 2004 he was punched, kicked and slapped at then transported to a facility at Mosul Airfield known as the “Disco”. He stated that during ...
Detainee alleges that after being taken in to custody on June 21, 2004 he was placed in a small cell beaten by soldiers while his hands were, handcuffed behind his back, not glowed to use the restroom, forced to urinate and forced to defecate on ...
Detainee alleged he was detained with a bag over his head for 14 days, was beat in the stomach and kidney, hit on the lips, thrown into concertina wire. He states that all his statements were made under torture. When the detainee was initially ...
Investigation into abuse of detainee at Ramadi Palace before arriving at Abu Ghraib. Detainee alleges that he was hood and handcuffed, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle in the back. Doctor found no signs of bruising. Marine Corps had ...
When Soldiers were attacked with small arms and an RPG several Iraqi nationals were taken in to custody; tried; and convicted of the offence. This CID report is the record of that judicial proceeding. One Iraqi was found guilty of attempted ...
Detainee alleges he was held at detention facility called "Tarak Base", located near Fallujah for six (6) days until he was transferred to “The Farm”. During the alleged interrogation at “The Farm” a male interrogator grabbed him by his hair, ...
Detainee states that he was taken to the Kilometer 22 Station, Al Qaim, Iraq, between July 14 & 21, 2003. An interpreter who was present at the facility at the time and may have participated in the interrogation stated that they never witnessed ...