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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Sworn statement of an Iraqi Civilian concerning an Iraqi woman and her two (2) brothers who are involved in anti-coalition activities. The statement claims that the woman is the "mastermind" of the terrorist cell and her two brothers are aligned ...
Sworn statement of an Iraqi civilian concerning a woman and her two (2) brothers who supported anti-coalition activities and assisted the Fedayeens in attacking U.S. forces with Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs). He stated that one of the men ...
This is a Court-Martial of Staff Sergeant Peasgood who was accused of and pleaded guilty to mistreating, shocking and hitting three (3) Iraqi detainees with an M34 blasting device and stripped them of their clothing. His punishment is a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Photograph, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
General, Use of electricity, Cramped confinement, Physical assault
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against certain soldiers involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldiers ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Threat
Medical report on a 20 year-old Iraqi insurgent wounded in a firefight with Coalition Forces. The report states the insurgent fired upon Coalition Forces and was return fired upon. As the insurgent attempted to explode an Improvised Explosive ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement)
General, Physical assault
Sworn statements of investigation of detainee abuse at Ramadi Palace, Iraq – July 11-12, 2003. Two soldiers were seen kicking bound detainees who were in custody. The soldiers were told that the Geneva conventions apply to all captured EPWs, but ...
May 16, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, General
Sworn statements of soldiers concerning the detainee abuse at Ramadi Palace, Iraq – July 11-12, 2003. The soldier giving the statement heard the a Captain threaten to kill several detainees. This document is part of an investigation in to an ...
Sworn statement for investigation an incident where an Army Captain abused a detainee. The Soldier witnessed the Captain interrogating a detainee and makes the detainee dig a grave with the understanding that it will be for the detainee. Later, ...
Sworn statement of a soldier who witnessed a Captain hit detainees on two occasions... This document relates to an AR 15-6 investigations in to alleged detainee abuse at Ramadi Palace, Iraq – July 11-12, 2003. This document is part of an ...
Sworn statement for investigation an incident where an Army Captain abused a detainee. The Soldier witnessed the Captain yelling at the detainees in a threatening manner, but did not witness the Captain striking the detainees. This document ...