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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Nov. 11, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2438
Memo states that during a recent "welfare visit" a British citizen at Guantanamo informed UK officials that he was "hooded and physically abused" prior to transfer to Guantanamo. In response, the memo states that Paul Butler, the Deputy ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Timothy J. Keating
Timothy J. Keating
Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Nov. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1093
Medical records of a detainee from Tier 1, Hard Site, Abu Ghraib Prison complaining about Sciatica and Testicular Pain. The medical records do not give any indication as to any personal information on the detainee.
Nov. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1780
Form for AR 15-6 proceedings form referencing an investigation at FOB Raider, Tikrit, Iraq on September 12, 2003.
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 994
Autopsy No: A03-144; Afghan civilian was found unresponsive while under guard by the Afghanistan Militia Forces at FOB Gereshk, Afghanistan. Cause of Death: Multiple blunt force injuries complicated by Rhabdomyolysis; Manner of Death: Homicide. ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1744
This document contains the medical records from numerous detainees during the summer and Fall of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another. However, the records cover the medical treatment of numerous Iraqi ...
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3946
Emails between JoAnn Dolan and Tomas Dukes and Others re: Comments by Australian Foreign Minister re Hicks, Habib, and Miltary Commissions. This is a forward of AAP Newsfeed article (11/11/2003 by Paul Mulvey) and has several recipients.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Thomas Dukes
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Hemingway, Frederic L. Borch, Sean Connolly
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3947
This email is a forward from JoAnn Dolan to Ronal Miller and others of an article in Nationwide News Party Limited, concerning Military Commissions for Foreign Detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller | Ed Cummings | John W. Crowley
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Todd F. Buchwald, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Dukes, Whit Cobb
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5612
Certificate of death for Abdul Wahid, an Afghani civilian. Cause of Death: Multiple Blunt Force Injuries; Manner of Injuries: Homicide.
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Death Certificate)
Abdul Wahid
Physical assault
Nov. 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6260
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding contacts at the Department of Defense and the National Security council for the delivery of an Amnesty International report.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Nov. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 503
This memo records the detention of one detainee and then details the Standard Operating Procedure and guidelines for 2nd Brigade Holding Area including meal schedules, transport, detainee punishment (limited to isolation and blindfolding), ...