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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This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Naffa Ibrahim Mahmoud, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Remembrance II at Camp Cropper. It is reported that on May 26, 2007 Mr. Mahmoud suffered a witnessed medical emergency ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Naffa Ibrahim Mahmoud
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Khayri Naim Muhammad, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Muhammad was found in the Camp Latrine area with trousers tied around ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Khayri Naim Muhammad
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into a reported unlawful killing of an Iraqi male during a US Army raid. The accusation was made by an Army Sergeant who claims to have been present on a raid when a Specialist shot an unarmed elderly male dead at the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This DOS Cable from the US Mission Geneva to DOS Washington contains a letter from Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, regarding the June 10, 2006 death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Legal Memo, Cable, Letter
Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Ahmad Khalaf Adbal, an Syrian national who died during interrogation at Camp Al Asad Regional Detention Facility (RDF), on January 3, 2007. It is reported that Mr. Abdal was being questioned for ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Ahmad Khalaf Abdal
This July 20, 2007 OLC memo from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo discusses whether the CIA may lawfully employ six enhanced interrogation techniques in the interrogation of "high value detainees who are members of al Qaeda and associated groups. ...
This is a CID investigation into the death of Karwan Muhhamad Ali Mahmud, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, April 4, 2007. Mr. Mahmud was found unconscious & struggling with a medical emergency by ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Karwan Muhhamad Ali Mahmud
This letter from Steven Bradbury to the CIA's Associate General Counsel is a response to the CIA's July 24, 2007 letter regarding the interrogation of [redacted]. This letter states that applying the interrogation technique in question for the ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Letter
Steven G. Bradbury
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mohammad Hashim Abdul Rahim, a detainee who died at Camp Bucca, It is reported that Mr. Rahim was brought to the guard shack by other detainees who found him unconscious and bleeding. The Report ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mohammed Hashim Abdul Rahim
Physical assault