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.

Search Result (1281)

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Sept. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1651
Medical report on a 22 year-old Iraqi Soldier, Kurdish, suffering from the effects of a car bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. The soldier suffered Zygotic Orbital Fracture, a Maxillary Fracture and Shrapnel Wounds about his body.
Sept. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1652
Medical records on a 20 year-old Iraqi civilian male who fell off a moving vehicle and fractured his skull and de-gloved his scalp. The gentleman was brought in to the hospital for treatment and was cared for by U.S. medical personnel, treated ...
Sept. 19, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1653
Medical records of a 33 year-old Iraqi detainee who was shot in the right thigh causing a fractured femur and he also suffered third (3rd) degree burns to both feet. The medical records do not state how the detainee received his injuries and does ...
Oct. 04, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault
Jan. 08, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1538

A detainee claims to have been assaulted while in custody at Camp Al Baghdadi. The detainee had his injuries substantiated and the conclusion of the report was that the detainee was abused. The report found that the detainee was handcuffed and ...

Sept. 20, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
General, Stress positions, Dietary manipulation, Physical assault
Mar. 18, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1550
CID Criminal Intelligence Report summarizing the investigation in to CID Report# 0841-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Dec. 08, 2008 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1552

Emails record the correspondences of the investigating agent with multiple army personnel regarding the details of what units and actual soldiers were holding the detainee. The agent conducts an exhaustive search but is unable to match the ...

Oct. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1553
These are emails concerning CID Report No. 0184-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Oct. 27, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1554
CID Report with hand written Memos addresses an investigation into an alleged abuse and concludes that there was insufficient evidence to prove assault, but that cruelty and maltreatment occurred. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Aug. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1556

Army memo from CID to Army Detainee Abuse Task Force requesting assistance in investigating allegations of detainee abuse in connection with CID Report: 212-04-CID259-80249.

Apr. 23, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1557
A CID Report with several Commander's reports relating to the investigation and punishment of soldiers involved in the drowning death of an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. Mr. Fadhil drowned after being ...
Sept. 20, 2005
Investigative File (CID, AR 15-6), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), UCMJ (Article 15)
Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Family/others, Other