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. 07, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5599
This is a CID investigation into the death of Muhammed Abd Frayh Al-Saaida, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on July 29, 2009. It is reported that Mr. Al-Saaida was witnessed to be having a medical ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammed Abd Frayh Al-Saaida
May 05, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5598
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ahmad Awwad Ibrahim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on January 14, 2009. It is reported that around 1:00 am on the morning of January 14th, Mr. Ibrahim ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmad Awwad Ibrahim
Oct. 02, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5597
This is a CID investigation into the reported unlawful killing of two (2) unknown Iraqi civilians. This Investigation was initiated upon a tip made by a family member of a soldier. The family member claimed that the soldier unlawfully killed two ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
Jan. 08, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5592
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Thabet Kalif Jabout, a detainee the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that on August 19, 2008 Mr. Jabout was admitted to the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Thabet Kalif Jabout
Oct. 29, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5590
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Mahmud Rashid Hasan, a detainee the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, on July 31, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Hasan was admitted to the CSH ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mahmud Rashid Hasan
Dec. 13, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5589
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Husayn Kazim Qurunair Al-Araki, a detainee Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, on May 22, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Al-Araki was a man who suffered from schizophrenia ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Husayn Kazim Qurunair Al-Araki
Physical assault
Feb. 28, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5571
This is a CID investigation in to the reported killing and mutilation of an unarmed Afghani civilian in Helmand Province Afghanistan by a Special Forces soldier. This CID investigation alleges that a Master Sergeant (MSG) shot the Afghani male on ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Afghan Male, Foward Operating Base Robinson, Helmand Provence, Afganistan, March 1, 2008
Physical assault, Other Humiliation, Other
May 10, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5574
This is a CID investigation in to the death of a detainee in Hutal City, Afghanistan, on December 4, 2008, and the death of a Department of Defense (DOD) Human Terrain Team (HTT) Member who died of injuries sustained in the same incident. This ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Salam
Physical assault
Apr. 15, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5576
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri, an Iraqi national who was reportedly shot & killed on May 16, 2008 in the Jazeera Desert, Iraq. This CID Report is the criminal investigation of a First Lieutenant ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri
Physical assault
July 21, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5572
This is a CID investigation in to the death of an Afghani male at the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Bagram, Afghanistan on June 23, 2008. This Report states that the gentleman was under treatment at the MTF for ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unnamed Afghani Male, Bagram Airfield (BAF), June 23, 2008