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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This letter from the Staff Judge Advocate located at Command Joint Task Force Seven concerns a detainee being interned for "Participating in attacks on the coalition forces" is a form letter. The detainee's name is redacted. He is being interned ...
This Detainee Tracking form is for a redacted detainee listed as a "Security Internee" and the action being taken is “Refer to Article 78 Panel”. The detainee was captured in a raid on a village. He admits to being part of a Fedayeen cell.
This letter from the Staff Judge Advocate located at Command Joint Task Force Seven concerns a detainee being interned for "IED making" is a form letter. The detainee's name is redacted. He is being referred to the Article 78 Panel under the ...
This is a tag that is tied to and accompanies the detainee as he is moved through the detainee internment process. The detainee associated with this tag is redacted but the tag states that he is "the younger brother of [redacted]."
This detainee Screening Report is a standard form letter for processing detainees taken in to custody. The detainee associated with this Screening Report is redacted, but his alias is "Al Dour"; Capture tag number 065-016; and his date of birth ...
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN number 25143. NDRS: 156216. The Board was Convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 25142. NDRS: 156215. The Board was Convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 30242. NDRS: 160813. The Board was convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 25224; NDRS: 156283. The Board was convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 25224. NDRS: 156282. The Board was convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...