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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May 09, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5532
This is a CID investigation into the death of Salah Safak Hamed. Mr. Hamed was a detainee that was transferred to the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF) Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq from the 10th Combat ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Salah Safak Hamed
Physical assault
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
Feb. 08, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5533
A CID investigation concerning the death of Hishim Shadad after receiving two gunshot wounds to his torso from "unknown person(s), not Coalition Forces." Mr. Shadad's death was determined to be a homicide.
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID)
Hishim Shadad
Physical assault
Mar. 07, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5660
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Al Jughayfi Haskim Humoud Humaidi, a.k.a. Ismail Na-Ama, a detainee who died after being interrogated by Iraqi Police at Forward Operating Base (FOB), Hadithia. It is reported that Mr. Humaidi was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault
Feb. 24, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5523
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ezaldin Awand Hazzaa Al Doulaimee, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on October 12, 2006. On September 30, 2006, Mr. Al Doulaimee was one of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ezaldin Awand Hazzaa Al Doulaimee
Physical assault
Jan. 18, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5656
This is the Autopsy Report Autopsy Report of Muntasir Hamad Furayh Mehlawy, a detainee at Al Qailm, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Mehlawy was attacked by another detainee, and killed by strangulation. Cause of Death: Ligature Strangulation: ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy
Physical assault
Aug. 14, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5546
This is a CID investigation into the death of Walid Khudayir, a detainee taken in to custody after engaging in combat operations with coalition forces. Mr., Khudayir died en route to the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca hospital ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Walid Khudayir
Physical assault
July 06, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5538
This is a CID investigation into a reported unlawful killing of an Iraqi male during a US Army raid. The accusation was made by an Army Sergeant who claims to have been present on a raid when a Specialist shot an unarmed elderly male dead at the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
Mar. 14, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5537
This is a CID investigation into the reported death of two (2) Iraqi men in February 2005. The men, Jasim Mohammed Shihab and Ahmed Jasim Radhi were supposedly killed by US soldiers. investigation was begun more than a year after the deaths of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Email, Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
July 20, 2007 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4552

An OLC memo addressing whether the CIA may use 6 "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the interrogation of high value detainees: (1) dietary manipulation, (2) extended sleep deprivation, (3) facial hold, (4) attention grasp, (5) ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Legal Memo
Steven G. Bradbury
John A. Rizzo
John A. Rizzo, Steven G. Bradbury, John McCain, Duncan Lee Hunter, Patrick Leahy, Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Hillary Clinton, John Warner, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher H. Shays, Patrick Philbin, Michael Hayden, Condoleeza Rice, Antonio Taguba
Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Jose Padilla, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
EIT, SERE, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity, Sexual, Use of water, Threat, Other Humiliation