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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This is a CID investigation in to the reported killing and mutilation of an unarmed Afghani civilian in Helmand Province Afghanistan by a Special Forces soldier. This CID investigation alleges that a Master Sergeant (MSG) shot the Afghani male on ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Afghan Male, Foward Operating Base Robinson, Helmand Provence, Afganistan, March 1, 2008
Physical assault, Other Humiliation, Other
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Tariq Sadig Abdul Jussain Alubaydi, a detainee at Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Alubaydi was complaining of chest pain while in detention. He was taken to the TIF hospital, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Tarig Sadig Abdel Hussein Aldbaidi
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Khatab Aswad Salih, a detainee who died after being shot in Kirkuk, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Salih was shot by US Forces on June 23, 2007. The Report states that Mr. Salih survived the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Khatab Aswad Salih
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Raad Hikmet Ahmed, a detainee who died at Camp Charlie field hospital, Al-Hillah, Iraq on March 22, 2006. On March 19th, Mr. Ahmed was brought to the camp by Iraqi Police Forces (IP), and left in the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Raad Hikmet Ahmed
Physical assault, General, Use of electricity
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ahmed Salih Khtheer, a detainee shot following a roadside stop and search in Samarra, Iraq on January 6, 2006. A US Army patrol operating out of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Brassfield-Mora, Samarra, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmed Salih Khtheer
Physical assault, General
This is a CID investigation into the death of Abdul Wali, a detainee at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan on December 19, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Wali was in his cell when he experienced a medical emergency. The soldier who responded ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Wali
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abid-Es Hamad-Mashadani, a detainee who died while in US custody. It is reported that Mr. Hamad-Mashadani was transferred to the 344th Field Hospital (FH) from a detention center. Upon arrival at ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abid-Es Hamad-Mashadani
This is the Autopsy report & Death Certificate for Umar Sa'ad Nassir Jabrin, a 22-year-old Saudi detainee. The Report states that Mr. Jabrin was found deceased in a garbage dumpster at the interment facility. Cause of Death: Multiple Blunt Force ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Umar Sa'ad Nassir Jabrin
General, Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death Ala Shnaywir Karim, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that on April 3, 2008 Mr. Karim was ill with vomiting. He was evaluated and it was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ala Shnaywir Karim
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Ahmed Ismail Al Wani Atawi detainee who died at the Camp Bucca Security Hospital on August 4, 2005. It is reported that Mr. Atawi suffered from multiple serious illnesses that ultimately led to ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ahmed Ismail Al Wani Atawi