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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Oct. 02, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5597
This is a CID investigation into the reported unlawful killing of two (2) unknown Iraqi civilians. This Investigation was initiated upon a tip made by a family member of a soldier. The family member claimed that the soldier unlawfully killed two ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
Jan. 14, 2011 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5601
This DOJ Letter from Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York to Alexander Abdo of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responds to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of October 16, 2009.
Jan. 14, 2011
Letter, Other
Preet Bharara
Alexander Abdo
Preet Bharara, Tara M. LaMorte
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5612
Certificate of death for Abdul Wahid, an Afghani civilian. Cause of Death: Multiple Blunt Force Injuries; Manner of Injuries: Homicide.
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Death Certificate)
Abdul Wahid
Physical assault
Oct. 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5620
This is the Autopsy Report of Fawaz Badaa Najem, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Najem was found by another detainee gasping for air. The Report states that Mr. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Fawaz Badaa Najem
Sept. 22, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5621
This is the Autopsy Report of Riadh Mohammed Abd Al Razak, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Al Razak suffered from coronary artery disease and a previous heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Riadh Mohammed Abd Al Razak
May 29, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5637
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Johar Nasir Hammed, a detainee in custody at Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Hammed was injured when taken in to custody, and that after being proceeded in to the Camp he was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
Apr. 15, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5576
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri, an Iraqi national who was reportedly shot & killed on May 16, 2008 in the Jazeera Desert, Iraq. This CID Report is the criminal investigation of a First Lieutenant ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri
Physical assault
Nov. 22, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5581
This is a CID Report in to the death of Husayn Uwayyid Husayn Kazim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on June 27, 2008. Mr. Kazim was reportedly killed by strangulation at the hands of other ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Husayn Uwayyid Husayn Kazim
Physical assault
July 21, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5572
This is a CID investigation in to the death of an Afghani male at the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Bagram, Afghanistan on June 23, 2008. This Report states that the gentleman was under treatment at the MTF for ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unnamed Afghani Male, Bagram Airfield (BAF), June 23, 2008
June 21, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5570
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Mahmud Fadhil Farhan, an Iraqi civilian. Mr. Farhan's mother alleged that he was shot & killed by American soldiers in front of her house on April 26, 2006 for refusing to obey orders. The ...