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
Apr. 23, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3452
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo. The detainee stated he was "fine" when asked about his health, but appeared to be physically tired and complained of being mentally exhausted. The interviewer offered the detainee fresh fruit and water and ...
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Isolation
May 19, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3461
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee when interviewed stated the "guards [at Camp Delta] were teasing the detainees and because of the noise they were making he was beaten in the leg and mouth". The summary also ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
May 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3462
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was being held in isolation at the time of the interview was scheduled, and he refused to answer any questions. Detainee did complain about the "harsh" treatment of the guards.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
General, Isolation, Physical assault
May 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3464
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was not willing to be interviewed until he was able to make a phone call to his family. He did state that stated that many of the detainees were being mistreated. He stated that ...
July 27, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3471
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that he was engaged in a strike regarding talking with interrogators due to an alleged incident involving an interrogator humiliating the Koran during the interrogation of ...
July 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3472
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee the interviewer asked the detainee about alleged sexual assaults he heard about occurring in the camp. The detainee explained he heard that female interrogators were sexually ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Sexual
May 21, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3473
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee initially refused to answer questions unless he was released from his present cell. When asked about his previous statement about being a member of [redacted] he advised that he only made that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Jan. 08, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3476
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that while in captivity at the original detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was beaten by U.S. Military Police Officers without justification. The detainee was asked about his ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Jan. 22, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3477
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about conditions at Camp Delta and he stated that "a lot of the brothers were still upset about the detainee who had attempted suicide six days earlier. Several of the ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious
Mar. 20, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3478
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee advised the interviewing agent that he was well. The purpose of this interview was to build rapport with this detainee. As a result, no investigative information was obtained. ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious