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 (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
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. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1785
Army memo stating that the proper safeguarding of detainees is the responsibility of capturing US forces and that US personnel are to adhear tot he Rules of Engagment.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Raymond T. Odierno
Sept. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1786
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance for the treatment of enemy prisoners of war (EPW), civilian internees (CI) and other detainees (OD) in the custody of U.S. Forces. Commanders at all levels will ensure that EPWs, civilian ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Sept. 21, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1862
Fax cover letter, entitled Legal Actions. The letter pertains to three 15-6 investigations.
Sept. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2061
This Army memo from Major general Odierno is to provide guidance for the treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW), Civilian Internees (CI) and Other Detainees (OD) in the custody of U.S. Forces, and stresses that Commanders at all levels will ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Sept. 22, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 171
Email with an executive summary of CID investigation into a Lieutenant Colonel's admission of issuing a death threat and firing his pistol next to the head of a detainee (an uncooperative Iraqi police officer suspected of being part of a plot to ...
Apr. 05, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Email
Bruce E. Davis
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 498
Investigation into the abuse (hitting and kicking) of several detainees. The detainees were captured for supposedly threatening soldiers with weapons and making false passports. Includes sworn statements of soldiers and detainees.
Mar. 23, 2005
Investigative File
Face slap or insult slap, General, Physical assault
Sept. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1655
Medical report on a 16 year-old Iraqi male detainee shot in the head. The medical records do not state how the detainee received his injuries and does not give any personal information on the detainee.
Sept. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1656
Medical records of a 32 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with blast wounds to his legs, causing Tib/Fib fractures and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee ...
Sept. 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 910
Memo concerning a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross with General Miller re; Guantanamo Detainees. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mitchell R. LeClaire, Steven M. Lynch