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 (124)

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Oct. 05, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5724
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of Muhammed Numan Nahar, a 71 year old Iraqi national who died at Camp Al Qaim on October 2, 2004. Mr. Nahar was captured near the Syrian Boarder and taken to Camp Al Qaim for detention and ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammed Numan Nahar
Aug. 02, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5762
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Hasan Salih Mohammed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a Task Force 88 raid in Tawara, Iraq on February 5, 2007. Mr. Mohammed died of unknown causes while being taken in to custody. His body was ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hasan Salih Mohammed
Physical assault, General
July 03, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5813
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Transcript, Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abu Bachir
July 20, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5484
A CID investigation into the death of an Iraqi detainee Mobass Fahad at Abu Ghraib Prison on November 15, 2004 from Acute Myocarditis. Mr. Fahad was reported to have a history of seizures and asthma. He was treated at the Camp hospital, and was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Fahad Mobas
May 19, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5503
This is a CID investigation into the death of Esmail Hamadi Hamadi Al Mashdani. Mr. Mashdani was a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. While incarcerated Mr. Mashdani became ill, and died as a result of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Esmail Hamadi Hamadi Al Mashdani
Sept. 07, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5507
This is a CID investigation into the death of Hassan Hadan Rakad, a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Rakad became ill while in custody, and was brought to the camp medical facility for a Hernia ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hassan Hadan Rakad
Dec. 12, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5551
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
Dec. 04, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5871
A CID investigation into the shooting death of Ali Jidek Azmer Shakur, 66 y/o Iraqi civilian employee of the Kirkuk Ministry. Mr. Shakur was shot by 2nd Squad of 1st Platoon, B Co, 2-116 on West River Road, Kirkuk, Iraq on September 21, 2005. It ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ali Jidek Azmer Shaku
Physical assault
Mar. 17, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5595
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Lo'y Lafta Hashim, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq on December 14, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Hashim was experiencing a medical emergency on Compound ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Lo'y Lafta Hashim
Apr. 02, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5535
This is a CID investigation into the death of Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy at Camp Remembrance II Internment Facility, Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq on October 28, 2006. Mr. Furayh Al Mehlawy was in a communal tent housing unit at Camp Cropper, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy