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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July 10, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5907
This DOS Cable from the US Mission Geneva to DOS Washington contains a letter from Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, regarding the June 10, 2006 death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Legal Memo, Cable, Letter
Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
June 09, 2007 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5861
This is the Death Certificate & Hospital Records for Saddam Muhammad Harag a detainee that died in a mortar attack at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Harag was injured when the CamP was ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Saddam Muhammad Harag
Physical assault
June 09, 2007 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5862
This is the Death Certificate and hospital Records for Hamid Obain Muhammad, a detainee that was killed in a mortar blast at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on June 9, 2007. Mr. Muhammad was injured in a mortar ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hamid Obain Muhammad
Physical assault
June 09, 2007 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5860
This is the Death Certificate & Hospital Records for Abdul Abdul Hameed a detainee who died of a mortar blast at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. on June 9, 2007 It is reported that a mortar attack on the camp ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abdul Abdul Hameed
Physical assault
June 09, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5859
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Hospital Death Report and Death Certificate for detainee Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed. Mr. Hamed was a 61-year-old Iraqi detainee of Camp Bucca. He was brought to the hospital after sustaining injuries from ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed
Physical assault
Jan. 15, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5799
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Jan. 22, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5798
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Physical assault, General
Jan. 16, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5796
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Dec. 22, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5779
TThis is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Dec. 24, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5780
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Iraqi detainee, Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault