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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June 30, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 131

Investigation into accusations that U.S. soldiers stole more than $40,000 from an Iraqi citizen. Investigation did not develop sufficient evidence to prove or disprove allegations. Investigation terminated.

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Other
July 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 132

CID report on investigation of the death of detainee Hassan Ekab Ahmed at Division Central Collection Facility (DCCF), Tikrit, Iraq. Determined cause of death was natural as a result of heart disease.

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Hassan Ekab Ahmed
Sept. 02, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 133

CID report on the investigation into the attempted escape of two detainees from Camp Cropper, Iraq and the shooting and subsequent death of one of the detainees, Ajkel Adebal Hussein Jabar. The shooting is deemed a justifiable homicide.

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Akel Abedal Hussein Jabar
Physical assault, Other
May 19, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 134
CID Investigation into a shooting of a civilian by a tower guard at Camp Bucca International Facility, Iraq. Due to a miscommunication, detainee was initially thought to be deceased, but was treated at a U.S. Army Medical Facility and is ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General
July 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 135
CID investigation into the manner of death of detainee Fathel Ibrahim Mahmood at the Baghdad, Central Confinement Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Mahmood experienced chest pains and was discovered unresponsive when medical personnel arrived at ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Fathel Ibrahim Mahmood
Other
Jan. 01, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 136
Report of investigation into an undetermined death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem, also known as Abu Malik Kenami, a detainee held in a military police battalion in Mosul, Iraq. According to the investigation, Abdul Kareem was found unresponsive ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Abu Malik Kenami
Feb. 11, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 137
Report of investigation into a shooting at Abu Ghraib prison on November 24, 2003. Ameed Sa'eed Al-Sheikh, a.k.a. Ameen Mohammed Sami Al-Sheikh, a Syrian national, had acquired a pistol and two knives that had been smuggled to him by an outside ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
William A. Cathcart, Steven L. Jordan, Shannon K. Snider, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Robert Elliot
Ameed Sa'eed Al-Sheikh
Physical assault
Dec. 10, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 142
Documents associated with CID investigation into the death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem, also known as Abu Malik Kenami, a detainee who was found dead in his cell in Mosul, Iraq.
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Abu Malik Kenami
Aug. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 144
CID report of investigation into the death of Nasef Ibraham, a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison. According to the report, Mr. Ibraham was brought unconscious to one of the guard stations at Camp Ganci at the prison by his relatives. The military ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Nasef Ibrahim
June 10, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 188
A civilian employee (CE) of the DIA reports in this memo his observation and allegation of violations of the Geneva Convention concerning detainee abuse and the illegal detainment of non-combatants. The CE alleges that he witnessed the ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Threat, Family/others