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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Emails include a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary Briefing for the Director of the Army Staff," The summary discusses detainee abuse and deaths, highlighted among the deaths are the deaths of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun ...
Emails include a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary Briefing for the Director of the Army Staff," The summary discusses detainee abuses and deaths, highlighted among the deaths are the deaths of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun ...
Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report into allegations of assault, cruelty and maltreatment of a detainee by guards at Abu Ghraib. Among the detainee's allegations, he stated that a US Army Sergeant hung him by his arms from the bars of a ...
Memo discusses an attempted escape and a riot that resulted in the shooting death of one detainee and injuries to seven others.
This report provides detailed information surrounding an incident during a riot at the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility, June 12, 2004, which resulted in the shooting death of a detainee and injuries to seven (7) others. The report provides a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Physical assault, General
Army memo discusses an AR 15-6 investigation into an attempted escape and a riot that resulted in the shooting death of one detainee and injuries to seven others. Memo also includes a list of those wounded during the incident.
Memo discusses the events surrounding the shooting deaths of two Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs) at Camp Bucca, Iraq on April 13, 2003. A Specialist and a Staff Sergeant with the 800th Military Police Brigade encountered numerous EPWs throwing ...
CID investigation of the death of a detainee in custody at Camp Cropper. On January 31, 2004 a detainee at Camp Cropper died of a brain hemorrhage from an unknown origin. The death was not considered homicide.
Investigation into death of detainee. Established probable cause to believe that several soldiers committed offense of assault against detainee, negligent homicide, cruelty and maltreatment, conspiracy and false statement. Detainee died when ...
CID report of investigation into allegations made by a detainee that, after his first arrested on April 25, 2004 he was punched, kicked and slapped at then transported to a facility at Mosul Airfield known as the “Disco”. He stated that during ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity