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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
July 09, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5814
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (NCIS)
Abu Bachir
Physical assault, General
July 11, 2005 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4695
This Dept. of Justice letter to Lawrence S. Lustberg and Megan Lewis of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., Re: ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., No. 04 Civ. 4151 (AKH) document production. Mr. Kelley's comments ...
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
David N. Kelley | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Lawrence S. Lustberg | Megan Lewis
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
July 13, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5820
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abu Bechir
Physical assault, General
July 14, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5819
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement)
Abu Bachir
Physical assault
July 14, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5816
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement)
Abu Bachir
Physical assault, General
July 14, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5642
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Mukhlef Swedan Sweidan, a detainee who died at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Sweidan underwent throat surgery while in detention. A medical ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Adnan Mukhlef Sweidan
July 14, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5818
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement)
Abu Bachir
July 14, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5817
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement)
Abu Bachir
July 15, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1331

Document is a photocopy of an envelope and compact disk with notation on the CD stating “ACLU Army; 7-15-05 Release. No other details provided.

July 19, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1534
This document is a response to an inquiry to cases of detainee abuse at Guantanamo. There are eleven (11) cases of substantiated misconduct, the incidents are not listed in chronological order.
July 22, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Other, General, Sexual, Forced physical training, Other, Use of water, Physical assault, Other Humiliation