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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Autopsy no: ME04-388; Based on a verbal report, an Iraqi civilian male was shot in a firefight and lived to be transported to a US hospital where he underwent multiple surgeries. Cause of death: gunshot wound of the abdomen; manner of death: ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Physical assault, General
Naif Sliman Amir, 27 year old male criminal detainee. Shot in chest and knee during a riot at the site. He was transported to the hospitalm, received treatment, but died of his wounds. Cause of Death: gunshot wound.
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Naif Sliman Amir
Physical assault

Autopsy Report of an unidentified Iraqi male shot in a firefight and lived to be transported to a U.S. hospital where he underwent multiple surgeries but died due to complications of his wounds. Cause of Death: Gunshot wound to the abdomen; ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
General, Physical assault
Autopy no: ME04-434; Fawaz Badaa Najem, a 42 year old male Iraqi civilian, was in US custody at Abu Ghraib. Be began making gasping sounds which awoke another detainee. The decedent was found to be unresponsive and pulseless. Resuscitation ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Fawaz Badaa Najem
Physical assault

Collection of 25 death certificates and summary of 30 detainee autopsy reports from Afghanistan and Iraq. Full autopsy reports can be found at ACLU RDI 991-1018.

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Physical assault, General
Autopsy report, preliminary autopsy report, trauma record, death certificate, and hospital report of death relating to the death of Fras Moazahim Habib. The cause of his death was a shotgun wound to the chest. Additional shotgun wound paths ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Fras Moazahim Habib
Physical assault, General
This is the Autopsy Report and Death Certificate of Manadel Al-Jamadi, a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison. The Report states that Mr. Al-Jamadi was taken in to custody by Navy SEALs and sustained injuries during his capture that led to his death. It ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault, General, Stomach/abdominal slap, Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
This is the Autopsy Report for Hatem Krarem Lateef, a detainee who died at the 31st Combat Support Hospital (CSH) on July 4, 2007. It is reported that Mr. Lateef was admitted to the CSH after receiving numerous battlefield injuries including ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Hatem Krarem Lateef
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Hader Ali Hussein. It is reported that Mr. Hussein was physically assaulted by other detainees and subsequently suffered a massive myocardial infarction, and died "despite medical treatment.Cause ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hader Ali Hussein
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. Mr. Al-Sawai's body was found burred in a shallow grave on the camp grounds on August 12, 2007. It is ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi
Physical assault