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.

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This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) chart notating the death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni national. Mr. Saleh may have caused himself the harm that took his life. It also contains a chart of CENTCOM ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email with the schedule and check list for the handling of deceased Muslim Guantanamo detainees, including the Muslim ritual body preparation; how detainee remains were signed over to a Yemeni ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Chart/List, Email
Richard Kirk, Leroy D. Smalls, Norman Morrisette, Lon Oliver, Randel Newton, Gregory Hager
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Photograph
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abdulla Fawzzi, a 54-year-old Iraqi detainee. It is reported that Mr. Fawzzi who was admitted to the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) for treatment of gunshot wounds to the lower extremities. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for Muhammed Ali Ali, a 26-year-old Iraqi detainee who died after he "was reportedly shot during a raid by U.S. forces." This autopsy report corresponds to the CID investigation titled "CID Report (Death): ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Ali Ali
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi, a 19 y/o Iraqi national in custody at Camp Cropper, Iraq. After Mr. Al-Janabi was taken in to custody he was medically examined and given a diagnosis of Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi
This is a CID investigation into the death of an unknown Iraqi male, shot by US forces on April 4, 2005. It is reported that the gentleman shot at Coalition Forces, who then returned fire, striking him once in the right flank. This file is the ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, 115 Field Hospital, Abu Ghraib Prision, Iraq, April 4, 2005
Physical assault
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
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