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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Nov. 11, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 157
Report of investigation into the deaths of Fras Moazahim Habib and Husham Nafit Ghafar, two detainees who died in US custody at Abu Ghraib, during the course of a prison riot in Ganci 3. Habib died of a gunshot wound to the chest and Ghafar died ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Fras Moazahim Habib, Husham Nafit Ghafar
Physical assault, General
Nov. 11, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 154
Detainees brought Fawaz Badaa Najem's body to gate at Abu Ghraib during the night after hearing him gasping. He had been otherwise well and had no medical history. The investigation established probable cause to believe that detainee Najem died ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Fawaz Badaa Najem
Other
May 31, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 152
A CID investigation was initiated after an interrogator stated that he knew of abuse had occurred at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). The interrogator said that he was reporting this conduct because he felt the actions were inhumane ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Stress positions, Other Humiliation
Aug. 04, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 153
This CID investigation was initiated upon receiving a complaint by a civilian interrogator that he “heard a rumor” that a guard at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) holding facility urinated in a water bottle and gave it to a detainee to ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Other
Sept. 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 150
CID report of investigation into a non-fatal shooting inside Camp Bucca, Iraq during a prison riot on September 22, 2003. The investigation determined that the use of live ammunition and the subsequent non-deadly shooting of one of the detainees ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault
Sept. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 146
Detainee was captured in Altlafia by US forces on June 3, 2004. His hands were tied and he was placed in a tank. He claimed that inside the tank soldiers hit him in the stomach, nose and mouth area with their fists and a metal pipe. One ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
July 26, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 147
Investigation initiated after Playboy Magazine published an article in May 2004, titled “Death and Dishonor,” alleging that soldiers of the 1/15th Infantry Battalion, 3d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division (Ft. Benning, GA), committed numerous war ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Pamela Andrews, Thom Jones
Physical assault, Sexual, General
Aug. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 144
CID report of investigation into the death of Nasef Ibraham, a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison. According to the report, Mr. Ibraham was brought unconscious to one of the guard stations at Camp Ganci at the prison by his relatives. The military ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Nasef Ibrahim
Dec. 10, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 142
Documents associated with CID investigation into the death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem, also known as Abu Malik Kenami, a detainee who was found dead in his cell in Mosul, Iraq.
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Abu Malik Kenami
Feb. 11, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 137
Report of investigation into a shooting at Abu Ghraib prison on November 24, 2003. Ameed Sa'eed Al-Sheikh, a.k.a. Ameen Mohammed Sami Al-Sheikh, a Syrian national, had acquired a pistol and two knives that had been smuggled to him by an outside ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
William A. Cathcart, Steven L. Jordan, Shannon K. Snider, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Robert Elliot
Ameed Sa'eed Al-Sheikh
Physical assault