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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June 16, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6392
This document is a list of pages that have been deleted from the released documents, including the code indicating the reasons for deletion. A total of 43 pages were deleted.
June 15, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6362
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6377
This document is a list of pages that have been deleted from the released documents, including the code indicating the reasons for deletion. A total of 17 pages were deleted.
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6386
This document is a page listing pages withheld from current release, as well as reasons for the withholdings.
June 07, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 5027

An autopsy report for Haji Naseem (aka Inayatullah), who died in Guantanamo Bay on May 18, 2011. This Army autopsy report concluded that his death was a suicide.

Feb. 28, 2013
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Haji Naseem
June 06, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6370
This document is a page listing 104 pages withheld from release and the reasons for their withholding.
June 03, 2011 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5837
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email with the schedule and check list for the handling of deceased Muslim Guantanamo detainees, including the Muslim ritual body preparation; how detainee remains were signed over to a Yemeni ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Chart/List, Email
Richard Kirk, Leroy D. Smalls, Norman Morrisette, Lon Oliver, Randel Newton, Gregory Hager