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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Aug. 19, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1643
Medical records of a 37 year-old Iraqi male detainee who was injured in the United Nations bomb blast of August 19th 2003. The detainee suffered blast injuries and shrapnel to his head and upper torso. The medical records do not give any ...
Aug. 19, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2949
Discusses detention and interview of detainee at Bagram, Afganistan [mostly redacted].
Aug. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4405
State Department cable providing a letter to be delivered to attorneys representing family members of certain persons being held at Guantanamo as Enemy Combatants. The letter states that the U.S. is not providing specific information on ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Aug. 19, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 5150
Memo from CJTF-20 reviewing U.S. detention facilities in Iraq. The overview covers the population and capacity of the facilities, future plans, major concerns, medical issues, a detainee processing summary, and challenges to the facilities.
Aug. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1641
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with shrapnel wounds secondary to blast injuries and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his ...
Aug. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1857
Memo details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered soldiers to fire upon ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
Aug. 20, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1902
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, Guantanamo Bay was conducted by the Air Force office of Special ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Other Humiliation, Religious
Aug. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1035
Death Certificate for Iraqi male who died of Natural causes - Myocardial Infarction (MI); Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD). The decedent was a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison in U.S. Custody. On or about 20 Aug 2003 he was noted to ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Taleb Ehad Kazen
Aug. 21, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3702
Letter from Theo van Boven, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to Amb. Moley concerning the detention of Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin. Mr. van Boven expresses his opinion that Mr. Isamuddin is in "secret" U.S. detention and is being held ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin
Aug. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3709
Fax cover sheet from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re: Correspondence Received from UNHCHR
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson