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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Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6389
This document is a series of emails relating a possible extradition treaty between the US and Iraq and the rules surrounding Miranda rights.
June 15, 2011
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Dec. 16, 2010 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6391
This document is a fax detailing the work by the FBI with detainees held by the Northern Alliance in Sheberghan, Afghanistan. it concludes that, at this time, no detainee can be considered "safe" and recommends several for transfer to Bagram and ...
July 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6455
This document is an email from redacted FBI officials concerning documentation for detained persons.
Sept. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6299
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the newly created Offense Table and Penalty Guidelines related to the FBI disciplinary process. The guidelines are intended to aid employees in determining the types of behavior that ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole
Apr. 04, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5855
This is the Death certificate for Luay Mustafa Razzaq Abd-Al. Mr. Abd-Al was found hanging in his prison cell at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, of an apparent suicide. He was given medical treatment at the ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Luay Mustafa Razzaq Abd Al
June 09, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5859
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Hospital Death Report and Death Certificate for detainee Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed. Mr. Hamed was a 61-year-old Iraqi detainee of Camp Bucca. He was brought to the hospital after sustaining injuries from ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed
Physical assault
Dec. 29, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5847
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email Memo discussing the shooting death, and subsequent release of the body of Ali Jodek Shakur, an Iraqi national, who was shot by Coalition Forces on September 21 2005, when he ran into a traffic ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Ali Jodek Shakur
Mar. 30, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 5851
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Detainee Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi, a 62-year-old Iraqi detainee, who was serving an 18 month prison term at Camp Remembrance, Iraq. Mr. Al Lohaybi was ...
May 06, 2011
Investigative File, Medical (Autopsy)
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi
Aug. 12, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5856
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Allah Al-Samarai, a 42-year-old Iraqi detainee. Mr. Al-Samari had been treated intermittently several times throughout his internment for leukemia. Mr. Al-Samarai's ...
May 06, 2011
Investigative File, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Allah Aldin Munai Al-Samarai
June 09, 2007 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5861
This is the Death Certificate & Hospital Records for Saddam Muhammad Harag a detainee that died in a mortar attack at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Harag was injured when the CamP was ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Saddam Muhammad Harag
Physical assault