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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CSRT | ACLU-RDI 590

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question had been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he assisted a member of the terrorist organization Hezb-E-Islami Gulduddin who had plans to plant a bomb at a U.S. military base in ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Mustafa Sohail
Other
CSRT | ACLU-RDI 591

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was the bodyguard of the individual responsible for killing a Red Cross member near Khahwali Kot. Detainee denied being a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Ghafaar
Other
CSRT | ACLU-RDI 592

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was a member of the Taliban with military experience against the Russians. Detainee denied all allegations and called two ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Saida Jan
Physical assault, General
CSRT | ACLU-RDI 593

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is associated with Al Qaida and the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The Tribunal claimed that the detainee was an employee ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Nechle
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation
FBI | ACLU-RDI 594
Document records that there have been 17 allegations of abuse at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002 that have been reported through CSRT process.
Nov. 30, 2005
Other
Other
July 26, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 595
Memo relating six records of detainee-related offenses between October 2001 and July 2004 at Guantanamo Bay. Some facts and all names are redacted. Accusations in the records are of assault, battery, verbal harassment, dereliction of improper ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Other
Aug. 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 596
Report of fight between two detainees in the recreation yard which included punching, beard-grabbing, and kicking. One detainee claimed that the other was interrupting his prayers and verbally assaulting him by talking about his family. Actions ...
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 597
Second report of incident reported in ACLU-RDI 596. Recorded action taken in response to incident is the issuance of a 508.
Mar. 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 598
Report of one detainee throwing water on another. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 599
A detainee assaulted and spit at another detainee while they were in the shower and recreation yard. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).