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 a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that before his arrest he believed in the humane treatment of prisioners in the United States. For this reason, when he was first interrogated, he cooperated with ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Sexual, Threat, Assault/death, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his health and he stated he was in relatively good health but suffered from occasional headaches and dental ailments. The interview proceeded and the detainee was ...
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The interviewers asked the detainee if he was going to talk if they allowed him to pray. The detainee responded by saying "you have subjected me to mental stress for eight (8) days, why should I talk to ...
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee initially refused to speak with the interviewing agent, however, when shown the various names he [the detainee] is known by, and a photo of himself, the detainee decided to engage with the ...
Interview of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo bay. The purpose of the interview was for the new interviewing agents to build rapport with the detainee and encourage his continued cooperation. The interviewers told the detainee that he needs to ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interview of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about Taliban involvement in poppy cultivation. He said the "Taliban committed worse acts than trafficking in drugs, and they are not true Muslims. Wearing a beard and ...
Interview of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee accused Pakistani Police with giving him electric shocks and U.S. troops of "beating him" when he was captured in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Later in the interview he admitted to lying about the ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee said that he is in good health, he is fed well, or at least as well as the other detainees, and the guards are treating him with respect. However, the detainee expressed concerns ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee made some general complaints about how the guards at the Camp treated the Koran (Qu'ran), but did not specify other than saying some gaurds had thrown it on the floor. The ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee appeared to be in good health, but complained about the treatment of other detainees when asked about his own condition, the detainee would not elaborate except to say that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
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