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 document, prepared by the Chief of Medical Services, summarizes and reflects upon the rendition, detention and interrogation program. The findings include that in a particular no evidence was found that the use of waterboard produced ...
This cable includes the contents of Abu Zubaydah's April 2004 mental status exam and December 2003 psychological assesment conducted by Mitchell and Jessen.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable, Medical
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Abu Zubaydah
This email correspondence discusses the Mental Status Examination and Recommended Interrogation Plan for Gul Rahman that were prepared by Bruce Jessen. These were both reviewed by someone at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center whose name is ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email, Medical
Bruce Jessen
Gul Rahman
EIT
This document, prepared by the Chief of Medical Services, summarizes and reflects upon the rendition, detention and interrogation program. The findings include that in a particular no evidence was found that the use of waterboard produced ...
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Abdul Razzak, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay Detention facility, Cuba. The Report states that Mr. Razzak succumbed to organ failure complicating metastatic colon cancer. The Report further found ...
Nov. 10, 2008
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abdul Razzaq Hekmati
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abd Al-Rahman M. Al-Umari a detainee at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. It is reported that Mr. Al-Rahman committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. The Report states that CPR & other ...
Nov. 10, 2008
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abd Al-Rahman M. Al-Umari
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 ...
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
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 Yasser Talal al Zahrani, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Zahrani along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each ...
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Yasser Talal al Zahrani
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Transcript, Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abu Bachir