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, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5584
This is a CID Report in to the death of Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on February 9, 2008. Mr. Al-Janabi was admitted to the TIF 31st Combat Support Hospital ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi
Dec. 30, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5573
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Tor Jan, an Afghani detainee being held at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Bagram, Afghanistan on June 26, 2008. This Report states that Mr. Jan was detained by the Afghan National Police, struggled while ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Tor Jan
Physical assault
May 12, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5568
This is a CID investigation in to the actions of four (4) soldiers for Murder, Conspiracy, Cruelty and Maltreatment, Failure to obey Order or Regulation & Aggravated Assault against Anti Iraqi Forces (AIF). The soldiers, all from A Troop, 6/9th ...
June 02, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5569
This is a CID investigation in to the reported death of an unnamed Iraqi male. The investigation was initiated when the CID investigator received an request to investigate an allegation that a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), ...
Aug. 14, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5546
This is a CID investigation into the death of Walid Khudayir, a detainee taken in to custody after engaging in combat operations with coalition forces. Mr., Khudayir died en route to the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca hospital ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Walid Khudayir
Physical assault
July 13, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5487
A CID investigation into the death of Johar Nasir Hammeed, an Iraqi national who died while in custody at the 48th Brigade Combat Team, Brigade Internment Facility (BIF) at the Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. Hammeed was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID, NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
Feb. 11, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5527
This is a CID investigation into the death of an Unknown detainee who died at the 10th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) on January 12, 2006. This gentleman was a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, when it is ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq, January 12, 2006
Physical assault
Dec. 31, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5541
This is a CID investigation into an allegation of an unlawful death of an unidentified Afghani prisoner. The investigation was initiated when a Captain reported that a suspected Taliban detainee was executed during questioning after being ...
Aug. 04, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5516
This is a CID investigation into the death of Three (3) unknown Iraqi detainees supposedly killed by being deliberately run over by US forces as an act of Murder. The investigation did not find any evidence to substantiate the claim. It is ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
Jan. 10, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5501
A CID investigation into the death of Awad Hasan Munthir, a detainee at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq on August 15, 2005. Mr Munthir was found in his cell, hanging himself in a shower stall with his bedsheets. ...