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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CID | ACLU-RDI 5163
Agent's investigation report on an unknown Iraqi national at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on November 4, 2003. This report indicates that the detainee stopped breathing and was found face down in the shower after an interrogation. Detainee is ...
Nov. 28, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5152
Emails to and from the DOD regarding the need to conduct an autopsy of Iraqi Major General Abed Mowhoush. One email states that the 82nd Airborne Division issued a press release indicating that the Major General died of "natural causes" and that ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Email
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Dec. 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5135
Preliminary autopsy report of General Abed Mowhoush, who died on November 26th, 2003 after being interrogated at the Al Qaim detention facility in Iraq. The cause and manner of death are listed as "pending".
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Oct. 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5161
This DOD memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. The memo outlines various interrogation approaches when dealing with security internees.
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Isolation
CID | ACLU-RDI 5162
CID Report on an unknown Iraqi national at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on November 4, 2003. CID indicates that the detainee stopped breathing and was found face down in the shower after an interrogation. Detainee is most most likely Manadel ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 5136
This investigative report details the detention and interrogation of former Iraqi Army captain, Manadal Al-Jamadi, at the Abu Ghraib detention facility on November 3, 2003. All names of officials involved in the interrogation have been ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Investigative File (CID)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
May 08, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5046
In this letter dated May 6, 2004, Human Rights Watch "calls, first, for the U.S. government to reveal all places of detention where security or terrorist suspects are being held on whatever grounds, and second, for it to permit independent, ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet
Mar. 04, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 5050

A redacted March 4, 2004 non-legal memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). This paper "responds to an OSD request" seeking to enumerate the implications of releasing ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Richard Butler
Amir Hamudi Hasan Al-Sadi
Feb. 23, 2011 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5026

 An autopsy report for Awal Gul, who died in Guantanamo Bay on February 1, 2011. This Army autopsy report concluded that his death was natural and caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Feb. 28, 2013
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Awal Gul
Sept. 23, 2009 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5020

This report concerns allegations that mind-altering drugs were administered to facilitate the interrogation of detainees under DOD control between September 2001 and April 2008. The report concluded that it could not substantiate the claim ...

June 28, 2012
Oversight Report
Patricia A. Brannin
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Peter H. Daly, William Melendez, Jay W. Hood, David M. Edgington, Charles A. Blanchard, Thomas W. Cunningham, James T. Faust, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Jay Alan Liotta, Laurence K. Burgess
Jose Padilla
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Other