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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Two pages of a Human Rights First report that includes a profile of the homicide of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi citizen captured and tortured in Abu Ghraib by Navy SEALS and CIA personnel. Al-Jamadi died on November 4, 2003 after being tortured ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Other
Human Rights First
Manadel Al-Jamadi
EIT, Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault
Revised version of Army Regulation 190-8, Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees which implements Department of Defense Directive 2310.1 and establishes policies and planning guidance for the treatment, ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Togo D. West, Jr., J.L. Johnson, J.S. Mobley, Richard A. Coleman, Jason L. Jones
This Tactical Interrogation Report, written by the DOD's J2X branch and addressed to Iraqi coalition forces, documents the interrogation of Iraqi detainee Amged Kazem Khalaf. The report consists of three components (I) Administrative (II) ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Amged Kazem Khalaf
This document lays out the proposed standard operating procedures for the preservation of evidence discovered during the course of military and other coalition operations. These instructions explain how the operational considerations for raids ...
This report known as the "Taguba Report" covers the alleged abuse of prisoners by members of the 800th Military Police Brigade at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad. It was ordered by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of Joint Task Force 7, the ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Investigative File
Antonio Taguba
This presentation lays out the organizational structure of the The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), its mission statement, goals, operating hypotheses, and issues. One part of the ISG's operations was the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center.
This document lists 21 photographs of Mr. Al-Jamadi. The photos themselves are entirely redacted.
Chart/List
Manadel Al-Jamadi
CIA copy of this standard form used when apprehending a prisoner.
This fragmentation order to CJTF-7 concerns detainee detention operations. The order consolidates prior detainee orders and guidance and controls detention and processing of all civilian internees and enemy prisoners of war. This copy does not ...
This document is the CIA's copy of a sworn statement detailing the interrogation of General Abed Mowhoush who was held at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq. This statement is included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault