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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Interview of detainee at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Detainee stated that he is a salesman of clocks and belts who regularly travels around Afghanistan and Pakistan; he has no association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda; and is innocent of any ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The detainee stated ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
The detainee was interviewed at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The detainee states that he was picked-up by American and Afghani soldiers. After he was questioned about being a member of the Taliban and when he could not provide a logical ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
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
Medical report on a 33 year-old Iraqi male detainee who was brought in to the hospital suffering from blast injuries due to an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) he was working on that blew-up on him prematurely and gunshot wounds incurred while ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Medical report on a 20 year-old Iraqi insurgent wounded in a firefight with Coalition Forces. The report states the insurgent fired upon Coalition Forces and was return fired upon. As the insurgent attempted to explode an Improvised Explosive ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement)
General, Physical assault
Medical records of a 25 year-old Iraqi male detainee from Abu Ghraib prison. The detainee was shot in the arm and leg. The medical report does not indicate the circumstances under which the detainee suffered his injuries.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault

Death Certificate: 39-Year-Old Male Iraqi Detainee - Internee (Civilian), Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq (Homicide). Related to ACLU-RDI 1666

Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
Medical admission form for 30 year-old male Iraqi civilian admitted for gunshot wound to the head - open skull fracture. Patient declared "Deceased". The decedent was listed as a Prisoner of War (POW) - Internee, but the facility where he was ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
Death Certificate of an Iraqi Civilian of unknown age. Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound to the Head - Open Skull Fracture; Cause and location of death not included.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General