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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Oct. 12, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5793
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Faisel Kurdi Serhan, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by soldiers of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 172th Infantry Regiment, US Nat. Guard stationed at Camp Ramadi, Iraq. ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Faisel Kurdi Serhan
Physical assault
Oct. 12, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5792
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Faisel Kurdi Serhan, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by soldiers of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 172th Infantry Regiment, US Nat. Guard stationed at Camp Ramadi, Iraq. ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Faisel Kurdi Serhan
Physical assault
Oct. 11, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5794
TThis is an NCIS investigation into the death of Faisel Kurdi Serhan, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by soldiers of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 172th Infantry Regiment, US Nat. Guard stationed at Camp Ramadi, Iraq. ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Faisel Kurdi Serhan
Physical assault
Oct. 08, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5852
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death Ali Jidek A. Shakur, a 66-year-old Iraqi detainee, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds during his capture on September 21, 2005. he was treated at several collation ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Notes, Medical (Autopsy)
Ali Jidek A. Shakur
Physical assault
Oct. 04, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5808
TThis is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abu Bachir
Sept. 25, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5721
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
Sept. 21, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5723
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Sept. 21, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5722
This is an NCIS investigation Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while the Marine was handling his sidearm, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
Sept. 16, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2250
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 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Donald J. Ryder, Thom Jones
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Other
Sept. 16, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2271
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.