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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Sept. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2065
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
General, Physical assault
Sept. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2066
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
Physical assault, General
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2067
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2068
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2069
This is the Court-martial record of trial with the verbatum transcript of the proceeding of Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits. Spc. Sivits pleaded guilty to some charges and was found guilty of others. The charges were that on November 8, 2003 Spc. ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Jeremy C. Sivits
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Stress positions, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Forced physical training
Dec. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2071
This Article 15 procedure was brought against a soldier who was present during an interrogation of a detainee at a jail facility in Iraq. The soldier was accused of punching the detainee with a closed fist; firing a weapon near his head; and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Article 15)
General, Assault/death, Family/others, Physical assault, Threat
Mar. 13, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2072
Samarra Bridge incident. The soldier was found guilty of abusing two (2) detainees by pushing them in to the Samarra River on January 3, 2004. One (1) detainee died from drowning.
Feb. 12, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2074
This Army Developmental Counseling Form was issued to a soldier that supposedly had an interaction with a detainee at Camp Bucca, Iraq wherein the detainee was not following the soldiers instructions and the soldier said in response " These guys ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Religious, Other Humiliation
Oct. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2075
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against a soldier involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldier accepting a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, General
Oct. 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2076
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against certain soldiers involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldiers ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Threat