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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Mar. 30, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5524
This is a CID investigation into the death of Fadil Jadua Hamid, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on October 19, 2006. Mr. Hamid was reportedly sleeping when he was noticed by other ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Fadil Jadua Hamid
Aug. 05, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5519
This is a CID investigation into the death of Taha Turki Labaih who died while in custody the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on March 7, 2006. Mr. Labaih collapsed in the TIF compound. It is reported that Mr. Labaih ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Taha Turki
Dec. 19, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5511
This is a CID investigation into the death of Raad Hikmet Ahmed, a detainee who died at Camp Charlie field hospital, Al-Hillah, Iraq on March 22, 2006. On March 19th, Mr. Ahmed was brought to the camp by Iraqi Police Forces (IP), and left in the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Raad Hikmet Ahmed
Physical assault, General, Use of electricity
June 10, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5513
This is a CID investigation into the death of Amer Ibrahim Mussa-Muhammed, a detainee who died by murder at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. Mr. Mussa-Muhammed was murdered by four (4) of his fellow detainees. He was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Amer Ibrahim Mussa-Muhammed
Physical assault
Sept. 07, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5506
A CID investigation found that Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi who died at Abu Ghraib prison hospital ward after suffering difficultly breathing and chest pain while in detention. Mr. Al-Zubaydi was the former President and Director of the President's ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
Jan. 10, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5501
A CID investigation into the death of Awad Hasan Munthir, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq on August 15, 2005. Mr Munthir was found in his cell, hanging himself in a shower stall with his bedsheets. ...
Jan. 05, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5500
A CID investigation into the death of an unknown male Abu Ghraib detainee. The report states that the detainee was involved in an altercation with US forces at the facility and suffered a Pneumopericardium (air between the heart and heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
July 13, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5487
A CID investigation into the death of Johar Nasir Hammeed, an Iraqi national who died while in custody at the 48th Brigade Combat Team, Brigade Internment Facility (BIF) at the Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. Hammeed was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
Feb. 24, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5483
A CID Investigation into the death of an Iraqi male named Ahmed Menkhi Al-Zarjawi. Mr. Menkhi Al-Zarjawi died at Camp Bucca Detention Facility in Iraq on October 19. 2004. Mr. Menkhi Al-Jarjawi was in custody for approximately twenty (20) days ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmed Menkhi Al-Zarjawl
May 09, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5482
A CID investigation into the death of an Afghani civilian, Haji Sher Mohammad. Mr. Mohammad was being held in custody at FOB Salerno, Khowst, Afghanistan when he complained about being bitten by either a snake or a bee while in his cell. Mr. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haji Sher Mohammad
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