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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Aug. 05, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2474
A FBI agent's statement of incident where he interviewed a detainee at Guantanamo on 08/05/2005. It was this agent who was bitten by the detainee as the detainee attempted to attack the interpreter. The agent states [the detainee] lunged out and ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti
Aug. 08, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2472
A detainee who was not interested in being interrogated got in to a verbal spat with an interrogator who, after becoming angry with the detainee, threw a refrigerator and a chair at the detainees, injuring the detainee. There was also some very ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
Aug. 08, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2476

This document has a collection of nine (9) sworn statements made by agents and others who were present or near by the interview room where detainee Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti lunged from his seat and attempted to attack the interpreter ...

June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement)
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti
Aug. 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5895
This is a Cable from the US Mission Geneva about a letter and Questionnaire they received from five (5) special rapporteurs conducting an investigation on Guantanamo detainees. The questionnaire contains forty-five (45) questions under the ...
Aug. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2475
An FBI agent discusses a detainee interview conducted on 08/05/2005 that became violent. The agent details an exchange between the detainee and interrogator(s). The agent states that the detainee initially refused to leave his cell for an ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti
Aug. 09, 2005 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4485
Letter from David N. Kelley, U.S. Attorney, DOJ to Lawrence S. Lustberg, Megan Lewis, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request (ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., No. ...
Aug. 09, 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
Aug. 10, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2473
This is an email from one DOD official to another regarding an incident where a detainee, while being interrogated, lunged out of his chair and attempted to attack the interpreter. The detainee bit the finger of the Special Agent in charge of the ...
June 30, 2006
Email
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti
Aug. 11, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1823
Investigation into abuse of detainee upon capture and on a subsequent occasion in Baghdad. Detainee was captured on 03/19/04 by Iraqi Police and turned over to custody of Americans. He was taken to Al Azhamiyah base. Detainee's account of who ...
Aug. 15, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5493
A CID investigation into the death of Adnan Mukhlef Sweidan, a detainee who died at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Control, Camp Bucca, Iraq on May 15, 2005. Mr. Sweidan died as a result of complications of thyroid surgery preformed on ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Mukhlef Sweidan
Aug. 15, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5809
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, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), Other
Abu Bachir
Physical assault