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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Apr. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1032
Death Certificate for a 27 year old male Iraqi detainee. Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest. Place of Death: 67th Combat Support Hospital; CID#: 0216-04-CID389-80649
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Other
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1343
This report by a DAIG Team interviewed 24 individuals and conducted 4 sensing sessions consisting of 23 Soldiers. All Soldiers interviewed and sensed were given surveys to assess factors associated with combat stress. The inspection took place ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Other
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1359
Questionnaire asked the officer thirty three questions regarding soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Contents redacted].
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1366
Questionnaire asked the official thirty one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Described an incident during a house raid where the individual "went for a weapon or was trying to push light of[f] ...
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1368
Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel forty-two questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Officer described an incident in which a detainee was cuffed inside a building inside the wire and was ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Other
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1371
Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel thirty questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Liuetenant Colonel explained that there was "Only 1 shooting. Some [detainees] obtained with bruises but ...
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1380
Questionnaire asked the Captain forty-one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [contents redacted].
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1382
Questionnaire asked the First Sergeant forty-one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. First Sergeant responded that in processing detainees, all males are removed from their homes, segregated, ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Physical assault, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3713
Letter from Jeffrey De Laurentis to Asma Jahanglr responding to a letter Mr. Jahangir sent asserting that the U.S. operations in Iraq are subject to the Special Rapporteur's mandate. He states in his letter "U.S. military personnel are operating ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Asma Jahangir
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Apr. 05, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3990
Fax Cover sheet from Steven Schneebaum, Patton Boggs Law Firm to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Steven M. Schneebaum
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell