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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Sworn statement of female Iraqi detainee whose siblings were also held at Adhamiya. States, "I have two sisters and five brothers. One brother died at [redacted]." Detainee was interrogated at Adhamiya palace for four or five days ...

June 30, 2006
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Threat, Use of electricity, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Sworn statement by a Iraqi national who became a detainee at Abu Ghraib along with his sister and brother. He claims that his brother was with the Saddam regime and when he went to visit his sister in Iraq he was taken in to custody as a detainee ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Dietary manipulation
Statement of officer who supervises detainee operations at Radwaniyah Palace Complex. "Bread and water is basically what we can support them with. They get as much bread as they can eat and one piece three times a day was more than they wanted." ...
Sworn statement by a commander, probably of a detention facility. Discusses detentions and interrogations, and states, "After medical screening the detainee would be ... secured to the floor by a 3ft chain linked to handcuffs.... Detainees were ...

Two sworn statements, one by Sergeant First Class NCO 2/5 Special Forces Group involved in detainee operations and one by a detainee. Both refer to the same interrogation, in which the detainee confessed involvement in 6 attacks on coalition ...

Statement of Sergeant First Class who served as an interrogator. Describes interrogations, and states that only specific interrogators conduct interrogations. Continues, "Our command has authorization to detain people longer than 72 ...

Sworn statement by "one of the team members who conducts interrogations of the detainees" at the THF (Temporary Holding Facility) at the Adhamiya Palace Complex. Interrogator states that he has "never used stress positions," and states, "At no ...
Sworn Statement by an IP, who talks about investigations. States, "When I was a policeman, I did not arrest anyone.... I did not interrogate people and I did not interrogate people with the Americans."
Sworn Statement by an interpreter. States, "I'm a lawyer and I used to be an interrogator, so sometimes you can't force a person to give you information.... Even I know about Human Rights." States, "I've never seen anyone use sticks, wires, or dogs."
Sworn Statement by Commander of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division regarding interrogations. States that he was unaware of allegations that a detainee had been sodomized during an interrogation, but that he was surprised because the division had ...