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 document was faxed from the CIA to Steven Bradbury (OLC). It describes the CIA's technique of "horizontal sleep deprivation," wherein a detainee is placed on a large blanket on the floor and chained such that he cannot sleep. ...

Detainees threw water and feces at each other for over an hour. Actions taken in response were 10 days of complete segregation and 10 days of complete loss of comfort items.
This heavily redacted message contains draft talking points for the press on the interrogation program.

Commander's Report of Disciplinary or Administrative Action concerning CID Nos. 0073-04-CID939-82567 and 0058-04-CID939-82650

CID report of the death of a detainee. The decedent was a detainee at Camp Ganci, Compound 6, Abu Ghraib prison. On November 3, 2003 he was complaining of chest pains and while being escorted to the aid station he collapsed and went in to cardiac ...
July 15, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Other
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abdulla Fawzzi, a 54-year-old Iraqi detainee. It is reported that Mr. Fawzzi who was admitted to the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) for treatment of gunshot wounds to the lower extremities. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report of Sher Mohammed Khan, a detainee at the Regional Interrogation Facility (RIF),Salerno Firebase, Afghanistan. It is reported that while Mr. Khan was being processed in to the RIF he stated that he was bitten by a snake ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Haji Sher Mohammad
This is the Autopsy Report of Sher Mohammed Khan, a detainee at the Regional Interrogation Facility (RIF),Salerno Firebase, Afghanistan. It is reported that while Mr. Khan was being processed in to the RIF he stated that he was bitten by a snake ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Haji Sher Mohammad
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Sohaib Mansoor Mohammed Salun, a detainee who died at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Iraq. The Report states that Mr. Salun was found breathless & without a pulse. (CID Report ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Sohaib Mansoor Muhammed Salun
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of the name of the agent who stated that there was an executive order dealing with treatment of Iraq prisoners as well as a document that discusses DoD interrogators misrepresenting ...