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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Feb. 17, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5615
This is the Autopsy Report of Ahmed N. Al Zarjawi, a detainee at Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Al Zarjawi was found unconscious, breathless and without a pulse. CPR and other life saving measures were initiated, but failed ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Ahmed Menkhi Al-Zarjawl
May 01, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5675
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Raad Kairy Hammid, a detainee of the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq. The Report states that Mr. Hammid died after developing new onset seizures and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Raad Kairy Hammid
Oct. 09, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5555
A CID investigation into the death of an Iraqi detainee named Kahayri Naim Muhammad at an internment facility in Camp Cropper. The investigation found that another detainee "attacked him, tied a pair of internee uniform trousers around his neck ...
Apr. 27, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5495
This is a CID investigation into the death of Elawy Dakhel Al Zobaie. Mr. Al Zobaie was a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Control, Camp Bucca, Iraq when he became ill. Mr. Al Zobaie fell breathless, and without a pulse. CPR was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Elawy Dakhel Al Zobaie
Oct. 19, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5559
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Emad Wasmee Ahmed, a juvenile detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Remembrance II at Camp Cropper. On July 31, 2007 Mr. Ahmed was seen being dragged unconscious by two (2) other ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Emad Wasmee Ahmed
Oct. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5619
This is the Autopsy Report of Husham Nafit Ghafar, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Ghafar died from a shotgun blast. The Report states that Mr. Ghafar was killed ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Husham Nafit Ghafar
Physical assault
Jan. 23, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5679
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Al Alwani, an Iraqi detainee killed while being transported between detention centers. It is reported that Mr. A Alwani was shot by the soldier guarding him when Mr. Al ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
June 22, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5863
A CID investigation into the death of Naser Ismail, an Iraqi civilian killed during a raid upon his home in Balad, Iraq in January 2004. This CID Report is detailed in the investigation in to the death that resulted in Premeditated Murder charges ...
Mar. 03, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5683
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Yahir Diasti Diab, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper. It is reported that Mr. Diab was being treated in the 31st Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Camp Cropper Intensive ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Yahir Diasti Diab
Feb. 25, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5563
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Abd Al-Jabber-Sulayman Hasan, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper. While Mr. Hasan was a detainee at Camp Cropper he was seen and treated for Edema & Congestive Heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abd Al-Jabber-Sulayman Hasan