The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been released and “reunited with his family” in Pakistan, the country's foreign ministry says.
detention center was released and “reunited with his family” in Pakistan, the country's foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday.since 2003, but he was never charged with a crime during the more than 17 years he was detained at the U.S. base in Cuba, according to Reprieve, a legal charity that represents him and has campaigned for his release.
The Pentagon said in a statement Saturday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had “notified Congress of his intent to repatriate Saifullah Paracha to Pakistan” last month. Paracha was notified in May 2021 that he had been approved for release by the prisoner review board, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, who represented him at his November 2020 hearing, told The Associated Press at the time.