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 (185)

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June 30, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6701
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the twelfth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 29, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6700
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the eleventh day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 28, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6699
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the tenth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 27, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6698
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the ninth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 26, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6697
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the eighth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 25, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6689
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the seventh day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 24, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6687
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the sixth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 23, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6686
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fifth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6683
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fourth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
EIT, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 19, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6682
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the second day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation