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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May 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1055
Male detainee, Abduhl Kaddim Altia, died while in US custody in Abu Ghraib prison. Cause of Death: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Manner of Death: Natural.
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abduhl Kaddim Altia
Aug. 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 82
Detainee Abduhl Kaddim Altia, a diabetic, died at Abu Ghraib on May 22, 2004. An autopsy ruled the cause of death "natural" (Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease). His son, who was also detained at Abu Ghraib at this time, reported that two ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Abduhl Kaddim Altia