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 19, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5904
DOS Cable from the US Embassy New Delhi, India to DOS Washington, re: Media Reactions June 17-19, 2006. The Cable includes sixteen (16) news articles from Indian New outlets and features the headline Global War on Terror, with several news ...
June 19, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5905
This is a DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with letters exchanged between the family of a Saudi detainee and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James C. Oberwetter. The letter from Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, brother of a ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
James C. Oberwetter
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi
June 21, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5906
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy Damascus, Syria concerns the media reaction in Damascus to US policy and other matters, June 2006.
June 22, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5843
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
June 23, 2006 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 2460
Interview of soldier by a Special Agent of the DIA Office of Inspector General. The soldier reported that ineffective interrogation techniques were being used by the Task Force. It is alleged in this interview that suspected detainees were being ...
June 23, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5630
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib Prison. It is reported that Mr. Al-Zubaydi suffered from cardiac ailments, including cardiac ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
June 24, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5508
This is a CID investigation into the death of Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi, a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Al Dulaimi became ill while in custody. He was brought to the camp medical facility ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi
June 26, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5672
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkaderal Lohaybi, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), who died on March 30, 2006. Mr. Lohaybi was found unconsciousness and brought to the camp hospital via medics, where he arrived unconscious, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi
June 27, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5781
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Eid Abbass
June 29, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5677
An autopsy report for Hamed Ali Mohamed, a 53-year-old Iraqi civilian detainee who was "reportedly ... assaulted by fellow detainees." The autopsy states the cause of death to be "multiple blunt force injuries ... received in unclear circumstances."
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Hamed Ali Mohaimed