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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DOS | ACLU-RDI 3693
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. These Talking points are to address questions and concerns of foreign governmants such as why families and consulates cannot visit detainees; why US cannot discuss the ...
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3697
This email is a forward of a July 4, 2004 article in the New York Times entitled "Officials Detail A Detainee Deal By 3 Countries" which makes the claim that the U.S. released certain detainees from Guantanamo in consideration fro the Saudi ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Tom Malionek
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan
Aug. 03, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3699
State Department cable with talking points addressing the concerns of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The cable states that the Working Group does not have a mandate or the competence to make an accurate assessment of the U.S. ...
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3700
State Department Information Memo from Kim Holmes (IO) and Lorne Craner (DRL) to the Secretary re: UNCHR's 6/25 public statement calling for visit of detainees and grounds where detainees are held to ascertain whether international HR standards ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Kim R. Holmes | Loren W. Craner
Aug. 21, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3702
Letter from Theo van Boven, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to Amb. Moley concerning the detention of Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin. Mr. van Boven expresses his opinion that Mr. Isamuddin is in "secret" U.S. detention and is being held ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3703
Fax cover sheet from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re: Working Group on Communications
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson
Oct. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3704
Fax from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re attached letter from Theo Van Boven. The letter is addressed to Kevin Moley and reminds him of the obligations to refrain from torture and to investigate allegations. The letter poses ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson
Oct. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3706
Fax from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re: Correspondence Received from UNHCHR
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson
Oct. 08, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3707
Letter to the U.S. Mission from Theo van Boven, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture, requesting that the U.S. respond to previous correspondence concerning allegations of mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Aug. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3709
Fax cover sheet from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re: Correspondence Received from UNHCHR
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson