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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A CID investigation into the death of Jaseem Emad, a detainee at the Baghdad central Concentration Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib on August 22, 2005. Mr Emad died from "gunshot wounds to the abdomen, left shoulder, and left hip" received in "an ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Jaseem Emad
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Yassin Mahmood Nasser. Mr. Nasser was a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. While incarcerated Mr. Nasser became ill, and died as a result of complications ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Yassin Mahmood Nasser
A CID investigation found that Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi who died at Abu Ghraib prison hospital ward after suffering difficultly breathing and chest pain while in detention. Mr. Al-Zubaydi was the former President and Director of the President's ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
This is a CID investigation into the death of Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi, a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Al Dulaimi became ill while in custody. He was brought to the camp medical facility ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Oda Muklif Al Dulaimi
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Hyder Abdul Hussein, a detainee at Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on March 15, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Hussein was admitted to the Camp Hospital on March 11th because he was not feeling well. Mr. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hyder Abdul Hussein
A CID Investigation into the death of an Iraqi male named Ahmed Menkhi Al-Zarjawi. Mr. Menkhi Al-Zarjawi died at Camp Bucca Detention Facility in Iraq on October 19. 2004. Mr. Menkhi Al-Jarjawi was in custody for approximately twenty (20) days ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmed Menkhi Al-Zarjawl
This is a CID investigation into the death of Abdullah Fawzzi, a detainee at the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF) Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq on January 30, 2005. Mr. Fawzzi was initially a patient of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Mohammed Anwar Abdulkarim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on October 27, 2007. Mr. Abdulkarim was attacked by another detainee and stabbed to death. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Anwar Abdulkarim
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Hader Ali Hussein, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on July 20, 2007. Mr. Hussein was attacked and beaten by other detainees in Compound 10C of Camp Bucca ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hader Ali Hussein
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death Mohammad Qusay Khalid, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on July 11, 2007. Mr. Khalid was attacked & beaten by other detainees for an apparent violation of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Oversight Report, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammad Qusay Khalid
Physical assault