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.
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported Al Qaida and Taliban forces, including receiving weapons training and participating in military operations against the ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported the Taliban or Al Qaida and that he traveled to Afghanistan with the purpose of training at an Al Qaida camp. ...
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 ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he fought against coalition forces with the Taliban or Al Qaida. Tribunal also found that the detainee supported Al Qaida training ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against coalition forces. Tribunal further showed that the detainee conducted surveillance of buildings, ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant because he attended al Qaida's al Farouq training camp, appeared in an al Qaida movie about the USS Cole bombing, attended a ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against coalition forces. Detainee was captured in Khowst, Afghanistan with [redacted] Pacha Khan, a ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against the United States by attacking the Shkin firebase. Detainee claimed that he had been tricked ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was trained in using a Kalashnikov rifle and heavy artillery and weapons in an Al Qaida camp. Detainee denied all allegations ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was responsible for rocket attacks against the United States forces from the Laywan Mountain. Detainee denied being a member of ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question had been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he assisted a member of the terrorist organization Hezb-E-Islami Gulduddin who had plans to plant a bomb at a U.S. military base in ...
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 ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was a member of the Taliban with military experience against the Russians. Detainee denied all allegations and called two ...
Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is associated with Al Qaida and the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The Tribunal claimed that the detainee was an employee ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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).
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 ...
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.
Detainees threw water and feces at each other for over an hour. Actions taken in response were 10 days of complete segregation and 10 days of complete loss of comfort items.
Detainees punched each other in the recreation yard. Actions taken in response were loss of comfort items for five days and complete segregation for 10 days.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 606. Detainees punched each other in the recreation yard. Actions taken in response were loss of comfort items for five days and complete segregation for 10 days.
One detainee spit on another because they were placed in the recreation yard together. Actions take in response were loss of comfort items for five days and segregation for five days.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in 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 ...
Two detainees fought in the recreation yard. Neither detainee was seriously injured by the fight. Following the fight, the detainees were put in orange uniforms and restrained with three-piece suits. Both underwent mental monitoring due to ...
A detainee in the left recreation yard began arguing with a detainee int the right yard. One of the detainees spit on the other. Action taken in response was complete loss of comfort items. The report records that the decision about complete ...
Detainee attacked another detainee in the recreation yard, under the direction of a third detainee who was secured in a shower cell adjacent to the yard. During the attack, the victim was compliant and did not fight back. When the attacking ...
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 604. Detainees threw urine/water/toilet paper at each other. Actions taken in response were complete segregation and complete loss of comfort items.
Second report of the incident that was recorded in ACLU-RDI 600. One detainee accused another of communicating threats of physical harm and lying to interrogators. Two detainees were involved in a physical altercation the next day. Medical ...
Detainee allegation of abuse at the hands of his fellow detainees. The detainee claimed that he had been beaten by fellow detainees and had had urine thrown on him. No evidence was found to substantiate the claim.
A Detainee at Guantanamo reported that his fellow detainees beat him and threw urine upon him. This memo is an acknowledgment of the receipt of that complaint. This is related to ACLU RDI 616.
This memo is a report of a finding concerning a detainee's allegation that fellow detainees are beating and threatening to kill him has no substantiation, and that none of them considered him a spy. The report concluded that there was no evidence ...
This is a report form used by the U.S. Army to log and detail alleagtions of abuse. This report pertains to an allegation by one detainee that 6-7 other detainees have beaten him and accuse him of being a spy. The details are almost completely ...
