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. 20, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 47

CID Investigative report into the death of Abdullah Saad Mohammed on February 19, 2004 during his detention at Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad, Iraq. An autopsy was conducted an it was determined that the detainee died of natural causes.

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Saad Mohammed Abdullah
Aug. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 483
Email between Army officers re: Pre-Deployment Training Requirements for the Iraqi Theater for Military Police Units
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Aug. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1031
Email from an Army medical officer to another Army Medical officer with attached New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet articles that accuse military physicians of complicity in detainee abuse.
Aug. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2047
These emails between Army Officers concerns the detention operations and is mostly redacted except for a few comments such as "Please pass to the trainers. Enclosed is MG Miller, Detention OPS recommendation to the training program.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Aug. 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2222
Emails include a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary Briefing for the Director of the Army Staff," The summary discusses detainee abuse and deaths, highlighted among the deaths are the deaths of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Lewis E. Welshofer, Jr., Jeff L. Williams, William J. Sommer, Jerry L. Loper
Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, Habibullah, Dilawar
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
Aug. 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4379

Press report on Canadian Guantanamo detainee reportedly "in pain" by former Guantanamo detainee, but disputed by Canadian officials. The article is published in Globeandmail.com.

Dec. 23, 2004
Other
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 470
Request for an update on the training of personnel re: handling of detainees in the wake of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Attachment outlines improvements in the handling of detainees. Training includes increasing observer evaluations and ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1741
This report provides Commanding General with report of investigations conducted in August 2004. It finds that the inspection area contains overlapping checklist items from the other four inspection areas and that the facilities inspected did not ...
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2032
These emails concern the updating of the Army training on how the Army conducts detainee operations. The emails cover several proposals, both long and short term, and make reference to the Army battalion participating in peace enforcement ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2219
Email refers to a document entitled " Detainee Abuse daily summary PMG 19 Aug 04 update." [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder