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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Sept. 02, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4808
This report provides detailed information into the death of Zaid Muhammed Tariq, an Iraqi national detainee. On August 22, 2003, at the Dakota EPW Holding Cell officers found Mr. Tariq on the floor of his cell, cell 14, having convulsions. The ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
Zaid Muhammed Tariq
Physical assault
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4828
Statement of a Captain, with Alpha Company, 588th Engineer Battalion, discussing the capture of an Iraqi target and his two sons. The target was suspected of among other offenses, selling stolen weapons. The Captain stated that after their ...
Nov. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4829

The interview of an official regarding injuries a civilian detainee sustained. The official responded to approximately six questions regarding the source of the detainee's injuries. The official stated that sometime in November 2003 the ...

Nov. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4841
Statement of a Captain, with Alpha Company, 588th Engineer Battalion, discussing the capture of an Iraqi target and his two sons. The target was suspected of among other offenses, selling stolen weapons. The Captain stated that after their ...
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4843
Statements of Army officials with the 588th Engineer Battalion discussing the capture of an Iraqi target and his two sons. The target was suspected of among other offenses, selling stolen weapons. The Captain stated that after their capture, the ...
Nov. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4846
The sworn statements of a Sergeant First Class and a Captain discussing the capture of four Iraqi targets. At least one target shot at the U.S. soldiers when the soldiers raided their home.
Nov. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4848
The sworn statements of a Sergeant First Class and a Captain discussing the capture of four Iraqi targets. At least one target shot at the U.S. soldiers when the soldiers raided their home.
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4850
This synopsis of events concerns the taking of prisoners from a house in Baqubah, Iraq, November 22, 2003 from where gunfire upon U.S./Coalition forces emanated. The report of events is by the investigating officer and details the actions of ...
Dec. 27, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2567
Statement of a Specialist First Class (SPF) in December 2003 concerning describing information derived from the interrogation of suspected resistance members in the Azimiyah area that incriminates family members as being a member of the ...
Dec. 27, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2568
Statement regarding a female detainee who was "detained for being the main financier of anti-Coalition activities in the Azimiyah area of Baghdad." States that detainee was "a known cell leader in the Azimiyah area" and gave money to her brothers ...