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.

Search Result (104)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 07, 2004 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 575

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an "Enemy Combatant" and that he willingly joined the Taliban and fought against American armed forces. The detainee denied all allegations against him, ...

Nov. 30, 2005
Legal Memo, CSRT
Other
CSRT | ACLU-RDI 582

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is affiliated with the Taliban and Al Qaida, having stayed in Al Qaida guesthouses and undergone military training at Camp ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
Physical assault, General
CSRT | ACLU-RDI 591

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was the bodyguard of the individual responsible for killing a Red Cross member near Khahwali Kot. Detainee denied being a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Ghafaar
Other
July 26, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 595
Memo relating six records of detainee-related offenses between October 2001 and July 2004 at Guantanamo Bay. Some facts and all names are redacted. Accusations in the records are of assault, battery, verbal harassment, dereliction of improper ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Other
Aug. 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 596
Report of fight between two detainees in the recreation yard which included punching, beard-grabbing, and kicking. One detainee claimed that the other was interrupting his prayers and verbally assaulting him by talking about his family. Actions ...
Mar. 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 598
Report of one detainee throwing water on another. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 599
A detainee assaulted and spit at another detainee while they were in the shower and recreation yard. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Sept. 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 600
Detainees were involved in a physical altercation after previous threats of physical harm. Actions taken against both detainees were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
Apr. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 601
Two detainees got into a scuffle following a headed discussion. Other detainees in the bay separated the two and led one into the latrine to calm him down. Upon exiting the latrine, the detainee threw a flip flop at another detainee. When the ...
Nov. 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 602
Detainees were involved in an argument and physical altercation that involved punching and throwing fruit. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.