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 (24)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3409
Detainee stated that he has been in prison for nine (9) months and no one can prove he committed any crime. He also claimed he was mistreated by U.S. Army Military Police soldiers during a recent cell block search. Interview was then ended.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
Apr. 08, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3441
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee appeared to be in good health, but complained about the treatment of other detainees when asked about his own condition, the detainee would not elaborate except to say that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
May 13, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 889
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
July 02, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3265
The interviewed detainee discusses traveling/moving to different areas refers in Afghanistan. States that he lied during previous interviews, due to inadequate medical attention and fear. Complains/alleges that he did not receive adequate medical ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Interview
Other