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 sworn statement of a soldier who was assigned as a detainee guard in Iraq. This guard stated that he remembered a detainee who was found dead at the facility and an accusation of the detainee being sodomized. The soldier stated that ...

Autopsy report, preliminary autopsy report, trauma record, death certificate, and hospital report of death relating to the death of Husham Nafit Ghafar. The cause of his death was a shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances surrounding ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Husham Nafit Ghafar
Autopsy report, preliminary autopsy report, trauma record, death certificate, and hospital report of death relating to the death of Fras Moazahim Habib. The cause of his death was a shotgun wound to the chest. Additional shotgun wound paths ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Fras Moazahim Habib
Physical assault, General
This is the Autopsy Report of Husham Nafit Ghafar, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Ghafar died from a shotgun blast. The Report states that Mr. Ghafar was killed ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Husham Nafit Ghafar
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report of Fras Moazahim Habib, a detainee of the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Habib died from a shotgun blast. The Report states that Mr. Habib was killed when ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Fras Moazahim Habib
Physical assault
This is an email chain focusing on the prison transfer and potential of prosecution for one detainee. An official raises broader questions of what it means to participate in the interrogation of a detainee and how the FBI can not implicate ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
This is a statement of a military intelligence officer who was describing his knowledge and understanding of accusations concerning the sodomizing of detainees in custody. The MI officer stated that he recalled the detainee claimed that he was ...

A CID Investigation was initiated based on the claims by a Sergeant that he witnessed several counter-intelligence (CI) agents abuse Iraqi detainees during interrogations while he was stationed in Samarra, Iraq. The Sergeant stated he saw CI ...

Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death
This is the Autopsy Report of Fawaz Badaa Najem, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Najem was found by another detainee gasping for air. The Report states that Mr. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Fawaz Badaa Najem
CID Report of investigation into detainee's allegation that, as 2 U.S. soldiers and an interpreter entered and searched his home, a third U.S. soldier walked in and struck him in the mouth with the butt of his rifle. Medical record states ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General