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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Aug. 19, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 5150
Memo from CJTF-20 reviewing U.S. detention facilities in Iraq. The overview covers the population and capacity of the facilities, future plans, major concerns, medical issues, a detainee processing summary, and challenges to the facilities.
| ACLU-RDI 5149
This document is the CIA's copy of a sworn statement detailing the interrogation of General Abed Mowhoush who was held at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq. This statement is included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
July 09, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5157
This document is the CIA's copy of a sworn statement detailing the interrogation of General Abed Mowhoush who was held at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq and died after being interrogated on November 3, 2004. This statement was included ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
July 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5158
This document is the CIA's copy of one of many sworn statements regarding the interrogation and subsequent death of Iraqi Major General Abed Mowhoush. This statement is also included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. The ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
Feb. 09, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5133
This document is the CIA's copy of the sworn statement of an anonymous military personnel from the 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, which is included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. The CIA version contains ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), UCMJ
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Nov. 09, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5166
CIA Copy of the Preliminary autopsy report of Manadel Al-Jamadi who died while detained at Abu Ghraib Prison. This document is also attached to the CID Report (Death): 0237-03-CID259-61219 released by the DOD. This version contains different ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
| ACLU-RDI 5139
CIA's copy of an autopsy report of Iraqi Major General Abed Mowhoush, who died in U.S. custody at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq. The document states, "the details surrounding the circumstances at the time of death are classified." The ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
June 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5122
This Coalition Provisional Authority memo provides a mechanism for facilitating the partnership between the Multinational force-Iraq (MNF-I) and the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG). It establishes a Joint Detainee Committee (comprised of ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
L. Paul Bremer
| ACLU-RDI 5123
This document appears to be a human rights manual, intended to provide basic information regarding national and international recognition of basic human rights. It includes the historical background of the development of human rights awareness, ...
Nov. 28, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5153
Emails to and from Redacted at CJTF-7 regarding the death of Iraqi General Abed Mowhoush and the necessary operational logistics after the fact. The emails describe his death as "[sudden]" and "unexplained." A press release regarding the ...