diff --git a/src/documents/tests/test_api_trash.py b/src/documents/tests/test_api_trash.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3a335f63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/documents/tests/test_api_trash.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from django.core.cache import cache
+from rest_framework import status
+from rest_framework.test import APITestCase
+
+from documents.models import Document
+
+
+class TestTrashAPI(APITestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+
+        self.user = User.objects.create_superuser(username="temp_admin")
+        self.client.force_authenticate(user=self.user)
+        cache.clear()
+
+    def test_api_trash(self):
+        """
+        GIVEN:
+            - Existing document
+        WHEN:
+            - API request to delete document
+            - API request to restore document
+            - API request to empty trash
+        THEN:
+            - Document is moved to trash
+            - Document is restored from trash
+            - Trash is emptied
+        """
+
+        document = Document.objects.create(
+            title="Title",
+            content="content",
+            checksum="checksum",
+            mime_type="application/pdf",
+        )
+
+        self.client.force_login(user=self.user)
+        self.client.delete(f"/api/documents/{document.pk}/")
+        self.assertEqual(Document.objects.count(), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(Document.global_objects.count(), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(Document.deleted_objects.count(), 1)
+
+        resp = self.client.get("/api/trash/")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.data["count"], 1)
+
+        resp = self.client.post(
+            "/api/trash/",
+            {"action": "restore", "documents": [document.pk]},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(Document.objects.count(), 1)
+
+        resp = self.client.get("/api/trash/")
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.data["count"], 0)
+
+        self.client.delete(f"/api/documents/{document.pk}/")
+        resp = self.client.post(
+            "/api/trash/",
+            {"action": "empty", "documents": [document.pk]},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        self.assertEqual(Document.global_objects.count(), 0)
+
+    def test_api_trash_insufficient_permissions(self):
+        """
+        GIVEN:
+            - Existing document with owner in trash
+        WHEN:
+            - API request to empty trash
+        THEN:
+            - 403 Forbidden
+        """
+
+        user1 = User.objects.create_user(username="user1")
+        self.client.force_authenticate(user=user1)
+        self.client.force_login(user=user1)
+        user2 = User.objects.create_user(username="user2")
+        document = Document.objects.create(
+            title="Title",
+            content="content",
+            checksum="checksum",
+            mime_type="application/pdf",
+            owner=user2,
+        )
+        document.delete()
+
+        resp = self.client.post(
+            "/api/trash/",
+            {"action": "empty", "documents": [document.pk]},
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN)
+        self.assertEqual(Document.global_objects.count(), 1)
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index a5ef50f44..8883a8b65 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from django.views.decorators.http import condition
 from django.views.decorators.http import last_modified
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 from django_filters.rest_framework import DjangoFilterBackend
+from guardian.core import ObjectPermissionChecker
 from langdetect import detect
 from packaging import version as packaging_version
 from redis import Redis
@@ -2075,6 +2076,12 @@ class TrashView(ListModelMixin, PassUserMixin):
         serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
 
         doc_ids = serializer.validated_data.get("documents")
+        docs = Document.global_objects.filter(id__in=doc_ids)
+        checker = ObjectPermissionChecker(request.user)
+        checker.prefetch_perms(docs)
+        for doc in docs:
+            if not checker.has_perm("delete_document", doc):
+                return HttpResponseForbidden("Insufficient permissions")
         action = serializer.validated_data.get("action")
         if action == "restore":
             for doc in Document.deleted_objects.filter(id__in=doc_ids).all():