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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June 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5839
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Khan Achmed, a detainee who died from TB, pneumonia and kidney failure at Bagram Detention Facility, Afghanistan. Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Thomas W. O'Connell
Douglas J. Feith
Douglas J. Feith, Thomas W. O'Connell
Khan Achmed
May 24, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5834
This is a CID investigation into the death of an unknown Iraqi male, shot by US forces on April 4, 2005. It is reported that the gentleman shot at Coalition Forces, who then returned fire, striking him once in the right flank. This file is the ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, 115 Field Hospital, Abu Ghraib Prision, Iraq, April 4, 2005
Physical assault
DOD | ACLU-RDI 5838
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo/Chart/Log discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each ...
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5840
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo from the Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to top DOD Department heads outlining procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in the custody of the Armed Forces. The memo states ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
June 03, 2006 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5836
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) chart notating the death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni national. Mr. Saleh may have caused himself the harm that took his life. It also contains a chart of CENTCOM ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh
June 03, 2011 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5837
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email with the schedule and check list for the handling of deceased Muslim Guantanamo detainees, including the Muslim ritual body preparation; how detainee remains were signed over to a Yemeni ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Chart/List, Email
Richard Kirk, Leroy D. Smalls, Norman Morrisette, Lon Oliver, Randel Newton, Gregory Hager
June 26, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5833
This is an autopsy report for Muhammed Ali Ali, a 26-year-old Iraqi detainee who died after he "was reportedly shot during a raid by U.S. forces." This autopsy report corresponds to the CID investigation titled "CID Report (Death): ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Ali Ali
Physical assault
June 02, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5830
This is an autopsy report for Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi, a 19 y/o Iraqi national in custody at Camp Cropper, Iraq. After Mr. Al-Janabi was taken in to custody he was medically examined and given a diagnosis of Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi
Oct. 19, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5831
This is an autopsy report for Emad Jaseem, an Iraqi national detainee who died following a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does not indicate how Mr. Jaseem ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Emad Jaseem
Physical assault
Oct. 21, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5832
This is an autopsy report for an unknown Iraqi detainee who died while being treated for injuries sustained during a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault