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 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4038
Icon and email indicate that a file titled "state comments on torture day statement" is attached.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Michael G. Kozak
Shahnaz Gheibi, Katherine M. Gorove, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Michael G. Kozak, Sharon E. Ahmad, John B. Bellinger, III
June 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4039
Email includes a pressing briefing question about the Uyghur detainees being held in Guantanamo, Mr. Boucher is asked whether the U.S. has decided to not send the Uyghur detainees back to China.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Richard A. Boucher, Sharon E. Ahmad
July 08, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4040
Press release from Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs announcing the release of a Swedish citizen who had been held at Guantanamo for over two years.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Sharon E. Ahmad
July 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4041
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Katherine M. Gorove | Andre Surena
Shahnaz Gheibi, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Andre M. Surena, Sharon E. Ahmad
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4042
Statement of Andre Surena to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, March 31-April 3, 2004. Statement discusses the status/classification of detainees at Guantanamo, whether the detainees should be classified as POWs, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview (Statement)
Andre Surena
Andre M. Surena, Sharon E. Ahmad
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4043
Email forward of a Radio Free Asia article, in which Colin L. Powell tells RFA that the Uyghur detainees being held in Guantanamo will not be sent back to China. The article discusses allegations that the Uyghur detainees were abused/mistreated ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Colin L. Powell, Sharon E. Ahmad
Oct. 02, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4044
Emails discuss a rewrite of a statement on torture. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ashley S. Deeks
Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin
Ashley S. Deeks, Shahnaz Gheibi, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Katherine M. Gorove, Heather Troutman , Sharon E. Ahmad, Rhonda H. Shore
Sept. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4045
No relevant text. [No documents included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Joshua L. Dorosin
Sharon E. Ahmad, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Joshua L. Dorosin
Nov. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4046
Emails discuss an OSCE meeting and the concerns of various human rights organizations over alleged torture and abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The original email has a report attached, which briefly discusses the death ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Francis M. Gaffney
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Sharon E. Ahmad, George W. Bush
John Walker Lindh, Dilawar, Habibullah
Stress positions
Nov. 04, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 4047
Email mentions an attached report, entitled "Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Selected OSCE Participating States." [Document is not included].