Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Freed in Belize After 20 Years in US Custody

The entrance to Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on March 5, 2013. Bob Strong/Reuters

The U.S. government has released and transferred a Pakistani man from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to Belize.

The U.S. Defense Department said on Thursday that Majid Khan, 42, had been transferred to Belize after serving his sentence at the U.S.-run detention center for over a decade.