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 (46)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Aug. 27, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 81
Report of investigation into alleged abuse of a detainee between January 2 and October 2, 2002 at Bagram Airfield. The victim suffered aggravated assault (beating). Efforts were made between May 17 and July 7, 2004 to interview the victim, who ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Doris Lama, Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General
Aug. 03, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 83
Army commenced an investigation prompted by "allegations documented in an excerpt from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity
Feb. 10, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 77

A report of an investigation into the cruelty, maltreatment, and aggravated assault of 44 Enemy Prisoners of War by ten U.S. soldiers (320th Military Police Battalion) who were escorting the prisoners to Camp Bucca, Um Qasr, Iraq. The ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
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Physical assault, General
July 16, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 56
Emails relating to an investigation into allegations of abuse of two Ukranian individuals detained in Abu Ghraib. The detainees were caught attempting to illegally smuggle oil and were sentenced to ten years in jail by the Iraqi court system ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Email
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, Other
July 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 52
An investigation into the shooting death of two detainees, including Naif Sliman Amir, during a riot at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. The investigation concluded that the shooting of both detainees was justifiable and that the soldiers involved had ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Naif Sliman Amir
Physical assault, General
Aug. 03, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 30
Detainee alleged that he was arrested by U.S. forces and placed in a hole in the ground with other detainees at an unknown location in Samara, Iraq for about three days, then threatened with death and taken to a room where he was placed on a box ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Forced grooming, Other
July 28, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 28

An investigation into a detainee's allegation that he was "tortured" at a U.S. facility in Mosul in March 2004. Detainee indicated that after being arrested but before arriving at the facility, his captors -- American men in civilian ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other
Aug. 03, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 26

Investigation into report by the senior Counterintelligence Technician, 1st Brigade Combat Team, enclosing sworn statements of two detainees concerning abuse by members of the 2nd Squadron, 5th Cavalry. The detainees' sworn statements are not ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Aug. 26, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 27

CID Headquarters requested that CID in Iraq initiate an investigation based on a May 11, 2004 Los Angeles Times article by Tracy Wilkinson indicating that one female detainee was raped and another was forced to disrobe in front of male guards. ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Noor Abdul Kareem
Physical assault, Sexual, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
July 05, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 24

Detainee alleged that he was captured in mid-April, 2004 at his house in Ammaria (Al Amiryah), Iraq, held at a U.S. facility in Ammaria, then transferred to Baghdad Airport and, finally, Abu Ghraib. The detainee alleged that, at Ammaria, two ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Other Humiliation