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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Mar. 29, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1286
Medical records of a 50 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to the abdomen and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries, ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, General
June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1287

Circumstances of death: "This believed to be 61 year old male Iraqi civilian was a detainee of the U.S. Armed Forces at the Detention Central Collection Facility, Tikrit, Iraq when he was discovered deceased in his bed... The decedent ...

Nov. 22, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1288
Circumstances of death are described as "died in US custody approximately 72 hours after being apprehended...physical force was required during his initial apprehension during a raid. During his confinement, he was hooded, sleep deprived, and ...
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1289
Male Iraqi National, DOB: January 1, 1960. Circumstances of death are described as: "[t]his 44 year old male, an Iraqi National, was apprehended by US Forces in Kirkuk, Iraq after he and two accomplices fired on coalition forces with rocket ...
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1290
Male Iraqi National, 75, collapsed and died during transport to a facility hospital. Circumstances of death: The detainee at the Central Baghdad Detainee Facility (Abu Ghraib) on 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1291
Detainee Abduhl Kaddim Altia died while at Abu Ghraib prison. The circumstances of death: Died while in US custody in Abu Ghraib prison. Detainee complained of chest pain to his son and then collapsed." Iraqi male, 64 years old (1940 DOB listed), ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Abduhl Kaddim Altia
Nov. 13, 2001 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4704
Presidential Military Order concerning the Detention, Treatment and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War against Terrorism. The Order is the basis for the authority to apprehend, detain and place on trial via Military Commissions persons who ...
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Mar. 18, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4706
This fax cover sheet is from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office - British Embassy, Washington sent by Robert Macaire to John Bellinger with the message:"I attach a copy of an internal record of the unsuccesa(ul application for judicial review of ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Robert Macaire
John Bellinger
John B. Bellinger, III, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Bruce Swartz
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3543
Department of Defense memo rescinding approval of the use of all Category II techniques and one Category III technique during investigations that were previously approved on December 2, 2002. Attaches memo from Jim Haynes, General Counsel of the ...
June 01, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
James T. Hill
Donald H. Rumsfeld, William J. Haynes, II, James T. Hill