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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 30, 2002 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1871
The Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) interviewed two detainees at Camp Delta to learn of camp conditions. One detainee informed the interviewers that in response to the "mistreatment and injustice that he and his Muslim brothers have ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious
Oct. 19, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1663
Medical report on a 16 year-old Iraqi male detainee from Abu Ghraib prison shot in the left hip and and arm with associated injuries. The medical records do not state how the detainee received his injuries and does not give any personal ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Oct. 08, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1297
Investigation into incident where a soldier of the 239th MP Company sprayed a detainee with a water hose. If found guilty, soldier would be punished at the least with a reduction to the grade of E-3, and seven days restriction. The circumstances ...
June 24, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Use of water, Water dousing
Oct. 01, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 397
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 5-520-10-MTP: Mission Training Plan for the Engineer Team, Quarry, (75TPH) (LC).