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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May 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3456
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked if he liked Americans. He said "of course" in a sarcastic manner, and stated why wouldn't someone like someone who had treated him badly on the way to Guantanamo Bay and hit him. ...
May 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3457
Interview of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee, when asked about his health stated he "was in good health", however he was bored with the food that he was receiving. Additionally, he requested that his Koran be taken from him. ...
May 09, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3458
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The interview on 5/8/03 and was conducted at 1530 and was completed at 1830. The second interview on 5/9/03 was conducted at 0400 and concluded at 0645. These two interviews are linked together, with the ...
May 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3459
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about the different names he has given to identify himself. He said used this name because of the abuse he received from interrogators in Pakistan after he was ...
May 18, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3460
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee's interview is broken-down by date and a synopsis of the interviews follows. In addition, there is a status report on the number of detainees being held and a description of ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Frankie Battle, Thomas G. Donlon
May 19, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3461
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee when interviewed stated the "guards [at Camp Delta] were teasing the detainees and because of the noise they were making he was beaten in the leg and mouth". The summary also ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
May 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3462
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was being held in isolation at the time of the interview was scheduled, and he refused to answer any questions. Detainee did complain about the "harsh" treatment of the guards.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
General, Isolation, Physical assault
May 27, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3463
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was unwilling to discuss any topic previously addressed, stating everything is "in the file". He said that he is very tired of being mislead by interrogators who never offer the ...
May 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3464
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was not willing to be interviewed until he was able to make a phone call to his family. He did state that stated that many of the detainees were being mistreated. He stated that ...
June 06, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3465
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee states that he had been coerced during a prior interview to give untrue statements to investigators. No details given.