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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May 29, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5637
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Johar Nasir Hammed, a detainee in custody at Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Hammed was injured when taken in to custody, and that after being proceeded in to the Camp he was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Johar Nasir Hammeed
Apr. 15, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5576
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri, an Iraqi national who was reportedly shot & killed on May 16, 2008 in the Jazeera Desert, Iraq. This CID Report is the criminal investigation of a First Lieutenant ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri
Physical assault
Nov. 22, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5581
This is a CID Report in to the death of Husayn Uwayyid Husayn Kazim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on June 27, 2008. Mr. Kazim was reportedly killed by strangulation at the hands of other ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Husayn Uwayyid Husayn Kazim
Physical assault
July 21, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5572
This is a CID investigation in to the death of an Afghani male at the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Bagram, Afghanistan on June 23, 2008. This Report states that the gentleman was under treatment at the MTF for ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unnamed Afghani Male, Bagram Airfield (BAF), June 23, 2008
June 21, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5570
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Mahmud Fadhil Farhan, an Iraqi civilian. Mr. Farhan's mother alleged that he was shot & killed by American soldiers in front of her house on April 26, 2006 for refusing to obey orders. The ...
July 06, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5538
This is a CID investigation into a reported unlawful killing of an Iraqi male during a US Army raid. The accusation was made by an Army Sergeant who claims to have been present on a raid when a Specialist shot an unarmed elderly male dead at the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
Mar. 14, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5537
This is a CID investigation into the reported death of two (2) Iraqi men in February 2005. The men, Jasim Mohammed Shihab and Ahmed Jasim Radhi were supposedly killed by US soldiers. investigation was begun more than a year after the deaths of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Email, Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
June 21, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5510
This is a CID investigation into the death of Ibrahim Muhammed Jared Al Majamaey, a detainee who died as a patient at the Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Tallil, Iraq on February 16, 2005. Mr. Al Majamaey was a detainee at Theater Internment ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Ibrahim Muhammed Jared Al Majamaey
Aug. 05, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5519
This is a CID investigation into the death of Taha Turki Labaih who died while in custody the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on March 7, 2006. Mr. Labaih collapsed in the TIF compound. It is reported that Mr. Labaih ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Taha Turki
Jan. 05, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5500
A CID investigation into the death of an unknown male Abu Ghraib detainee. The report states that the detainee was involved in an altercation with US forces at the facility and suffered a Pneumopericardium (air between the heart and heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault