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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This is a CID investigation into the death of Hader Ali Hussein, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on July 20, 2007. Mr. Hussein was attacked and beaten by other detainees in Compound 10C of Camp Bucca ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hader Ali Hussein
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Hader Ali Hussein. It is reported that Mr. Hussein was physically assaulted by other detainees and subsequently suffered a massive myocardial infarction, and died "despite medical treatment.Cause ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hader Ali Hussein
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. Mr. Al-Sawai's body was found burred in a shallow grave on the camp grounds on August 12, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Mohammed Ajimi Al-Isawi
Physical assault
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Hasan Salih Mohammed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a Task Force 88 raid in Tawara Iraq on February 5, 2007. Mr. Mohammed died of unknown causes while being taken in to custody. His body was ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hasan Salih Mohammed
Physical assault, General
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
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Hasan Salih Mohammed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a Task Force 88 raid in Tawara, Iraq on February 5, 2007. Mr. Mohammed died of unknown causes while being taken in to custody. His body was ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hasan Salih Mohammed
Physical assault, General
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Khatab Aswad Salih, a detainee who died after being shot in Kirkuk, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Salih was shot by US Forces on June 23, 2007. The Report states that Mr. Salih survived the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Khatab Aswad Salih
Physical assault
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mohammad Hashim Abdul Rahim, a detainee who died at Camp Bucca, It is reported that Mr. Rahim was brought to the guard shack by other detainees who found him unconscious and bleeding. The Report ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mohammed Hashim Abdul Rahim
Physical assault
This July 20, 2007 OLC memo from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo discusses whether the CIA may lawfully employ six enhanced interrogation techniques in the interrogation of "high value detainees who are members of al Qaeda and associated groups. ...