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. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 233
The Fourth Geneva Convention sets forth conduct in time of war.
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 957
Geneva Convention Treatment of Prisoners of War August 12, 1949.
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 2453
This is an excerpt of Articles 4 and 5 of the 1949 Geneva Convention.
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3752
Geneva Convention Article 2: Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: Part I General Provisions
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3753
Geneva Convention Article 3: Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: Part I General Provisions
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3754
Geneva Convention Article 4: Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: Part I General Provisions
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3766
Geneva Convention Article 4: Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War Part I: General Provisions.
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3771
Geneva Convention Article V: Convention (V) Information Bureaux and Relief Societies for Prisoners of War
Dec. 07, 1956 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 370
Army Pamphlet: FM 27-10 THE LAW OF LAND WARFARE, December 1956 version.
| ACLU-RDI