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 is a Memo from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General (IG) to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The memo is intended to inform the DCIs that the OIG has completed an investigation regarding the death of Iraqi detainee Abid Hamad ...
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
John L. Helgerson
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Ali Abdullah Ahmed, a 21 year old Yeminis male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Ahmed, along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Yasser Talal al Zahrani each ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Ali Abdullah Ahmed, a 21 year old Yeminis male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Ahmed, along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Yasser Talal al Zahrani each ...
Aug. 28, 2008
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mana Shaman Turki Alutaybi, a.k.a. Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Tabi, along with Ali Abdullah Ahmed and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Hassan Hadan Rakad, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib Prison. It is reported that Mr. Rakad suffered from cardiac ailments, including cardiac arrests ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hassan Hadan Rakad
A CID investigation into the death of Johar Nasir Hammeed, an Iraqi national who died while in custody at the 48th Brigade Combat Team, Brigade Internment Facility (BIF) at the Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. Hammeed was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Ismael Hamid Ali, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, who collapsed while playing volleyball. It is reported that after collapsing, Mr. Ali was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Ismael Hamid Ali
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a.k.a. Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi, 52 y/o Iraqi Male, Hamdani, Iraq, June 8, 2006. Cause of Death: Multiple Gunshot Wounds; Manner of Death: Homicide.
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
Physical assault
An autopsy report for Hamed Ali Mohamed, a 53-year-old Iraqi civilian detainee who was "reportedly ... assaulted by fellow detainees." The autopsy states the cause of death to be "multiple blunt force injuries ... received in unclear circumstances."
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Hamed Ali Mohaimed