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 (188)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2479
DOD Hospital Record for the October 7, 2004 Incident at Guantanamo Hospital when a detainee attacked an MP who was attempting to loosen the detainees restraints to make the detainee more comfortable. The detainee was subdued with a punch in the ...
June 30, 2006
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Mash Alawad Alhabiri
Jan. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2387
Medical Exam of a detainee at Guantanamo. Heavily redacted medical report from January 16, 2003. The report concludes that the detainee has suffered no injuries or trauma.
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1744
This document contains the medical records from numerous detainees during the summer and Fall of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another. However, the records cover the medical treatment of numerous Iraqi ...
Nov. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1685
This is the medical record of a 14 year-old Iraqi male who was shot in the left leg and took some shrapnel to the face. The medical records do not give any indication as to the circumstances of the events that gave rise to the injuries, only that ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, General
Nov. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1683
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds to his lower back. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention facility he ...
Nov. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1682
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with shrapnel wounds to his chest and buttocks and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries ...
Nov. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1680
Medical records of a 30 year-old Iraqi male admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to chest, groin, torso and associated injuries as a result of a firefight with coalition forces. The Iraqi was firing a Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher (RPG) at ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Nov. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1681
Medical records of a 36 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to chest, groin, torso and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his ...
Nov. 06, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1678
Medical records of a 25 year-old Iraqi male detainee who suffered a broken jaw in an un-described assault eight (8) days earlier.
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Nov. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1675
Medical records of a 20 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Combatant and Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to the legs and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault