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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Sept. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1858
AR 15-6 memo from an Administrative Law Attorney with the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. The attorney reviewed an investigation into the September 11 shooting death of an Iraqi detainee, Obeed Hethere Radad. The conclusion of the review is ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, Other
Sept. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1865
Informal investigation into the shooting death of Iraqi national detainee, Obeed Hethere Radad. The shooting officer, a Specialist (SPC), stated that he shot Radad because he was under the belief that a handcuffed Radad was trying to escape. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Raymond T. Odierno
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Other