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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Jan. 24, 2008 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5909
This DOS Cable from the US Embassy Kuwait to the DOS Washington describes the effort to establish a boarder crossing between Kuwait & Iraq, near Camp Bucca. The Cable describes the interest of Kuwaiti and Iraqi government officials to increase ...
Jan. 23, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5679
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Al Alwani, an Iraqi detainee killed while being transported between detention centers. It is reported that Mr. A Alwani was shot by the soldier guarding him when Mr. Al ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Jan. 23, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5919
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Marwan Taha Ahmed, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Ahmed was found in the Camp unconscious & unresponsive. Cause of Death: ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Marwan Taha Ahmed
Physical assault
Jan. 14, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 4508
Memo to the CIA Office of the Inspector General providing comments for its Special Review (17pg), with attachments (26pg).
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Jan. 08, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6648
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the thirteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $53,403,684 to ...
Jan. 07, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5682
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Hamid Muhsin Khazi, a detainee being held at the Task Force Rapture Screening Facility Area (SF), Iraq. Mr. Khazi was shot by a Sergeant on the compound grounds. It is reported that Mr. Khazi was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Hamid Muhsin Khazi
Physical assault
Jan. 03, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5552
This is a CID investigation into the death Mohammad Khudayer Abulla, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Abulla was strangled to death on September 13, 2007 by other detainees, and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammad Khudayer Abulla
Physical assault
Dec. 31, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5541
This is a CID investigation into an allegation of an unlawful death of an unidentified Afghani prisoner. The investigation was initiated when a Captain reported that a suspected Taliban detainee was executed during questioning after being ...
Dec. 24, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5780
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Iraqi detainee, Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Dec. 24, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5777
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault