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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Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant because he attended al Qaida's al Farouq training camp, appeared in an al Qaida movie about the USS Cole bombing, attended a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Ibrahim Mahdi Achmed Zeidan

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he engaged in hostilities against coalition forces. Detainee was captured in Khowst, Afghanistan with [redacted] Pacha Khan, a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Khandan Kadir
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was trained in using a Kalashnikov rifle and heavy artillery and weapons in an Al Qaida camp. Detainee denied all allegations ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud al Hami
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question had been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he assisted a member of the terrorist organization Hezb-E-Islami Gulduddin who had plans to plant a bomb at a U.S. military base in ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Mustafa Sohail
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was the bodyguard of the individual responsible for killing a Red Cross member near Khahwali Kot. Detainee denied being a ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Ghafaar
Other

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was a member of the Taliban with military experience against the Russians. Detainee denied all allegations and called two ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Saida Jan
Physical assault, General

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he is associated with Al Qaida and the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The Tribunal claimed that the detainee was an employee ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Mohammed Nechle
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation
Document records that there have been 17 allegations of abuse at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002 that have been reported through CSRT process.
Nov. 30, 2005
Other
Other
Army Action Plan: Job Action Sheet Detention Hospital Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Blank form for manpower pool coordinator.
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Block Nurse at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay