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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Dec. 15, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5490
A CID investigation into the death of Tasheen Abdal Qader, who became sick soon after capture and was examined by medical personnel. "On the last check-up Mr. Qader was found to be non-responsive," and was subsequently pronounced death. An ...
June 26, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5491
A CID investigation into the deaths of Ismael Hammed Abid, Mahmood Ismaeel Mousa, Khaleed Yassen Hamed, Hauthaifah Nazar Tawfeeek, all detainees at Camp Bucca. Their deaths were the result of a riot during which two soldiers "fired a total of ...
Nov. 03, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5504
This is a CID investigation into the death of Yassin Mahmood Nasser. Mr. Nasser was a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. While incarcerated Mr. Nasser became ill, and died as a result of complications ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Yassin Mahmood Nasser