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 10, 2006 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5845
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
June 10, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5846
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Physical (non-death))
Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5840
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo from the Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to top DOD Department heads outlining procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in the custody of the Armed Forces. The memo states ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
June 10, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5884
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
June 10, 2006 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5844
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Email
Thomas Schonebeck
Thomas Schoenbeck, Harry Binkley Harris, Jr, Kenneth Glueck, Edward A. Leacock, Peter A. Husta, Ronald L. Sollock, Whitney H. Howard, Anthony G. Battaglia, Michael I. Bumgarner, Paul B. Rester, Dirkland T. Smith
Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
June 03, 2006 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5836
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) chart notating the death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni national. Mr. Saleh may have caused himself the harm that took his life. It also contains a chart of CENTCOM ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh
June 03, 2011 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5837
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email with the schedule and check list for the handling of deceased Muslim Guantanamo detainees, including the Muslim ritual body preparation; how detainee remains were signed over to a Yemeni ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Chart/List, Email
Richard Kirk, Leroy D. Smalls, Norman Morrisette, Lon Oliver, Randel Newton, Gregory Hager
June 10, 2006 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 5841
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Photograph
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
Apr. 15, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5928
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abdulla Fawzzi, a 54-year-old Iraqi detainee. It is reported that Mr. Fawzzi who was admitted to the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) for treatment of gunshot wounds to the lower extremities. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
June 26, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5833
This is an autopsy report for Muhammed Ali Ali, a 26-year-old Iraqi detainee who died after he "was reportedly shot during a raid by U.S. forces." This autopsy report corresponds to the CID investigation titled "CID Report (Death): ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Ali Ali
Physical assault