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 (85)

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June 16, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1895
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Air Force ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
July 18, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1897
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Navy Naval ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Cramped confinement
Aug. 30, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1903
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Air Force office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Sept. 13, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1906
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by Criminal Investigative Task Force Saudi Team (LSA-1) along with Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 30, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1907
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Detainee ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Oct. 21, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1910
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The detainee stated ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Dec. 29, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1912
The detainee was interviewed at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The detainee states that he was picked-up by American and Afghani soldiers. After he was questioned about being a member of the Taliban and when he could not provide a logical ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
Sept. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1654
Medical report on a 28 year-old Iraqi national insurgent wounded in a firefight with Coalition Forces. The medical report states that the insurgent was shot in the head and took shrapnel to the chest, arm and leg after he and another individual ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Sept. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1657
Medical report on a 33 year-old Iraqi male detainee who was brought in to the hospital suffering from blast injuries due to an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) he was working on that blew-up on him prematurely and gunshot wounds incurred while ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Oct. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1664
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