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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Detainee interviewed at Camp Delta states that he is dissatisfied with the treatment the detainees are receiving by U.S. military personnel that are assigned to Camp Delta. He states and others have been 'beaten, spit upon and treated worse than ...
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other
FBI Summary Notes indicate that the detainees are upset with the way they are treated by the guards. They are upset because they are being held as prisoners without being charged with a crime and that they should be charged or released; The ...
FBI Summary Notes indicate that the detainees are upset with the way they are treated by the guards. They are upset because they are being held as prisoners without being charged with a crime and that they should be charged or released; The ...
Detainee gave expansive interview on the conditions at Camp Delta; his views on different Al Queda leaders and US/Mid-East relations. He had no specific complaints about his conditions. When asked what he liked about America, he provided ...
Detainee stated that he has been in prison for nine (9) months and no one can prove he committed any crime. He also claimed he was mistreated by U.S. Army Military Police soldiers during a recent cell block search. Interview was then ended.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
Detainee states that he has no condition complaints or accusations of abuse, but that he does not trust the American Government because they betrayed the trust earlier. He also states that he distrusts the Americans because officials from his ...
Detainee began the interview by saying he was under stress because he had not heard from his family and did not know how they were doing. He went on to confirm the details of how and where he was capti\ured in Afghanistan. Detainee denied any ...
A Detainee requested to be interviewed because he stated he was "Very Stressed" and he was being tormented by another detainee. He gave an expansive interview detailing that several of his fellow detainee had openly expressed a desire to harm the ...
Detainee states he was initially questioned by members of his home government who told him that "the United States is very weak and in financial ruin because of the Trade Center bombing". Detainee also stated that the delegation told him that the ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
Detainee interviewed at Camp Delta, Guantanamo stated that he "felt that his human rights were being violated and that he should be represented by an attorney" And "did not like his treatment, and felt he and others were being treated like ...