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.

Search Result (65)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Jan. 27, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1881
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID. The detainee discussed the reasons why he was recently placed in solitary confinement, he was confined because he ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Religious
Jan. 20, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1879
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee stated his brother attempted suicide three days prior ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Aug. 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1866
The investigative file details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Legal Memo, Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, 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
Aug. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1857
Memo details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered soldiers to fire upon ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
Nov. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1685
This is the medical record of a 14 year-old Iraqi male who was shot in the left leg and took some shrapnel to the face. The medical records do not give any indication as to the circumstances of the events that gave rise to the injuries, only that ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, General
Nov. 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1684
Detainee died of gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen. Traumatic injury secondary to gunshot wound to the abdomen. Approximate interval between onset and death: 13 days.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
Nov. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1680
Medical records of a 30 year-old Iraqi male admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to chest, groin, torso and associated injuries as a result of a firefight with coalition forces. The Iraqi was firing a Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher (RPG) at ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Nov. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1679
Death Certificate of unknown Iraqi Male of unknown age. The deceased appears to have been a detainee and was shot multiple times to the back, chest and pelvis.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
Nov. 06, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1678
Medical records of a 25 year-old Iraqi male detainee who suffered a broken jaw in an un-described assault eight (8) days earlier.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault