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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Jan. 14, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4371
Amnesty International Paper re: Members and Supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) In Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
Mar. 04, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4374
Fax Cover Sheet from Frank Sieverts, International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to Edward R. Cummings. the message attached is: "For your and Will's information, here is Urs's follow-up message to Chuck Allen and to BG Jack Kern whom he saw ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Letter
Frank A. Sieverts
Edward R. Cummings
Edward R. Cummings
June 14, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4288
Letter from William F. Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International to U.S. President George W. Bush re: Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
William F. Schultz
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Nov. 03, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4297
Letter from an individual to Sec. of State Powell concerning the treatment of his uncle and US refusal to state where he was and if he was still alive. The gentleman states "Everything the government is doing to my uncle is against the US ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Oct. 05, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4309
United Nations Press Release: Iraq - UN Rights Report Delayed so Coalition Governments Can Provide Input
Aug. 05, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4315
Email from David P. Stewart to James Hergan, Ronald J. Bettauer, Gilda M. Brancato and Others re: Lawyers Against Torture. Email states that some of the recipients' good friends are signatories of a Lawyers Against Torture statement.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
David P. Stewart
Christopher N. Camponovo | Ronald J. Bettauer | Katherine M. Gorove | Gilda M. Brancado | Samuel M. Witten | Jonathan B. Schwartz | James Hergen
Christopher N. Camponovo, James G. Hergen , Ronald J. Bettauer, Robert K. Harris, Gilda M. Brancato, Katherine M. Gorove, Samuel M. Witten, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Wynne M. Teel , Richard G. Olson, Michael G. Kozak, Michael J. Dennis
Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4316
Letter from Lawyers Against Torture to President George W. Bush re" Lawyer's Statement on Bush Administration's Torture Memos stating that the torture memoranda circumvent long established and universally acknowledged principles of law and common ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush | Richard B. Cheney | Donald H. Rumsfeld | Ashley A. Larsen
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Cheney, John D. Ashcroft
June 02, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4338
State Department cable from the U.S. Mission in Geneva containing a letter received by Ms. Asma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteurs on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and Torture and Mr. Theo van Boven the Special Rapporteur on ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Asma Jahangir
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 06, 1999 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3183
Israel's Supreme Court held that the General Security Service is not authorized to employ certain investigation methods that involve the use of physical pressure against a suspect.
Dec. 13, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3208
This is a letter from an attorney representing a person detained by the U.S. to FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the letter the attorney states that he has reached out to DOD General Counsel William Hayne and Attorney General Ashcroft concerning ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Robert S. Mueller
William J. Haynes, II, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller