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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Sworn Statement that discusses raid in Al-Winat village. States, "I took custody of the above named individuals," whose names are redacted.
Sworn statement by a commander of 2-3 FA. Document is barely legible. Discusses detention procedures and the detention facility at "the palace." States that detainees were generally only held there for up to 2 days. Talks about the death of a ...
Sworn statement discussing detention procedures and interrogations. States, "The [redacted] was fairly aggressive in their interrogations, but I don't believe they did anything abusive." Mentions the presence of a dog at the facility.
Sworn statement discussing detainee operations and detention-related paperwork. Mentions the death of a detainee "after he left BSA".

Largely illegible. Sworn statement by an NCO regarding detention procedures. States that detainees were generally held for 1-2 days, and "5 days at the most." States, "I've never heard of any allegations of abuse."

Sworn statement in questionnaire form of a guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Holding Facility. Refers to two individuals named Mohammad Saddam and Roy (Rafat) [redacted]; respondent states that they were not allowed access to the detainee holding ...

June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Mohammed Rafiq

Sworn statement by a HUMINT interrogator. First page entirely redacted. Talks about an individual male interrogator who is "not a good interrogator" because he is aggressive and asks questions with an answer already formulated. Also ...

Major requests follow-up information about interrogations, specifically solders' statements saying that [redacted] sometimes removed detainees from the holding facility for brief periods of time (5 minutes to an hour) for questioning. Major ...

Statement of Sergeant - Guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Facility Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004. Contains questions and answers regarding the locations of interrogations and interrogation practices. Respondent states that detainees were removed from the ...

Statement of Corporal - Guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Facility Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004. Questions and Answers regarding the locations of interrogations and interrogation practices. Same set of questions as in ACLU-RDI 2588. In response to a ...