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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A CID investigation into the death of Sadunn Hamza Feihan, and Iraqi national who was shot dead on November 15, 2004. Mr. Feihan was reported with several men on a vehical that attempted to avoid a roadside check-point. The vehicle was pursued, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS)
Sadunn Hamza Feihan
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Rafal Abdul Al Kadar Amhed at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca hospital after being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Mr, Amhed was initially admitted to the camp hospital for ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Rafal Abdul Al Kadar Amhed
A CID investigation into the deaths of Ismael Hammed Abid, Mahmood Ismaeel Mousa, Khaleed Yassen Hamed, Hauthaifah Nazar Tawfeeek, all detainees at Camp Bucca. Their deaths were the result of a riot during which two soldiers "fired a total of ...
A CID investigation into the death of an Iraqi detainee named Kahayri Naim Muhammad at an internment facility in Camp Cropper. The investigation found that another detainee "attacked him, tied a pair of internee uniform trousers around his neck ...
This is a CID investigation into the death of Elawy Dakhel Al Zobaie. Mr. Al Zobaie was a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Control, Camp Bucca, Iraq when he became ill. Mr. Al Zobaie fell breathless, and without a pulse. CPR was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Elawy Dakhel Al Zobaie
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Emad Wasmee Ahmed, a juvenile detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Remembrance II at Camp Cropper. On July 31, 2007 Mr. Ahmed was seen being dragged unconscious by two (2) other ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Emad Wasmee Ahmed
A CID investigation into the death of Naser Ismail, an Iraqi civilian killed during a raid upon his home in Balad, Iraq in January 2004. This CID Report is detailed in the investigation in to the death that resulted in Premeditated Murder charges ...
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Abd Al-Jabber-Sulayman Hasan, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper. While Mr. Hasan was a detainee at Camp Cropper he was seen and treated for Edema & Congestive Heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abd Al-Jabber-Sulayman Hasan
A CID investigation into the death of Qassim Hassim, an Iraqi civilian who was killed by an American Sergeant just outside Sadr City, Iraq. According to the report, a vehicle Mr. Hassim was was traveling in was stopped by US soldiers because it ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Qassim Hassim
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the actions of a Sergeant with "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment (2/12), Combat Outpost (COP) Chosen, Iraq. The Sergeant (SGT) was initially suspected, accused and eventually confessed to ...