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 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1047
Abbas Alwan Fadil died while in US custody at Abu Ghraib prison. There is a verbal report only of pain. Cause of Death: Acute Myocardial Infarction 2nd: Peritonitis of undetermined etiology. Manner of Death: Natural
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abbas Alwan Fadil
May 19, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 1920
The detainee was interviewed about his life prior to being captured and his goals once he is released. He also expressed an opinion on Jihad and the pillars of Islam, noting that “Jihad, is a duty to defend one's country, not a Pillar of Islam". ...
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1986
The email sets up a review of Major General Taguba's report.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2069
This is the Court-martial record of trial with the verbatum transcript of the proceeding of Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits. Spc. Sivits pleaded guilty to some charges and was found guilty of others. The charges were that on November 8, 2003 Spc. ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Jeremy C. Sivits
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Stress positions, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Forced physical training
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2112
Emails refer to an attachment - "EXSUM - DODIG [Department of Defense Office of Inspector General] & DOJ and request for cases." [Document is not included].
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2113
Email refers to an attached document that discusses internment operations and law of war training. A particular paragraph in the document outlines the Army's rules/guidelines, stating soldiers do not kill or torture enemy prisoners.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2114
Emails reference an attached document, which discusses the Army's interaction with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2115
Emails refer to a Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) document related to an independent panel to review DOD detention operations and an Office of the Provost Marshall General (PMG) task summary sheet.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2116
Email includes a presentation entitled "Deaths of Detainees Under US Military Control." The presentation states that as of May 19, 2004, there have been 63 detainee deaths: 58 deaths in Iraq and 5 in Afghanistan. The 58 deaths in Iraq were ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2313
Discusses existence of new photos of abuse of detainees. A CD of photographs was provided by CIA to Department of Defense who forwarded it to the Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID). Some of the photographs were the Abu Ghraib ones shown ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sexual, General, Sexual, Physical assault, Other Humiliation