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. 19, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5831
This is an autopsy report for Emad Jaseem, an Iraqi national detainee who died following a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does not indicate how Mr. Jaseem ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Emad Jaseem
Physical assault
Oct. 21, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5832
This is an autopsy report for an unknown Iraqi detainee who died while being treated for injuries sustained during a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault
Aug. 18, 2004 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 5827
This is a CIA Routing Slip with a fifteen (15) page memorandum attached. The Memo is fully redacted. The memo is from Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, "regarding [redacted] Letters on Detainees". There ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Condoleeza Rice
May 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6369
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...
NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5775
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Iraqi detainee, Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Dec. 01, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5719
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
Dec. 22, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5779
TThis is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Sept. 21, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5723
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Jan. 05, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5783
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement)
Adnan Eid Abbass
Jan. 19, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5787
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Eid Abbass