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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CIA's copy of an autopsy report of Iraqi Major General Abed Mowhoush, who died in U.S. custody at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq. The document states, "the details surrounding the circumstances at the time of death are classified." The ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
This document appears to be a human rights manual, intended to provide basic information regarding national and international recognition of basic human rights. It includes the historical background of the development of human rights awareness, ...
This is the CIA's copy of the final autopsy report of detainee Manadel Al-Jamadi. This document is contained within the full-length CID report linked to this document. Autopsy No.: ME 03-504; Iraqi National male, Manadel Al-Jamadi, was ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
This document is labeled as "Page 2 of 2" of what appears to be an e-mail message. The message is almost entirely illegible; all that is visible is a small portion of the address block.
Note accompanying hard copies of EC related to Guantanamo; requesting recipient to have EC's serialized.
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
Email from Inspections Division seeking response from FBI employees who served at GTMO after 9/11/01. The email specifically requests a response from employees who "observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on ...
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
Agent's investigation report on an unknown Iraqi national at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on November 4, 2003. This report indicates that the detainee stopped breathing and was found face down in the shower after an interrogation. Detainee is ...
This incident report, written in both English and Arabic, details the death of Iraqi detainee Manadel Al-Jamadi on November 4, 2003 after being interrogated at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. This report is contained within the full-length CID ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling