The US Defense Department said Tuesday that it had released a Kenyan man from its Guantanamo prison, leaving 29 men still held extrajudicially at the American base in Cuba.
Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu was repatriated to Kenya after it was determined that his detention was “no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the national security of the United States,” the Defense Department said in a statement.
The Washington Post reported that Bajabu had been arrested in 2007 and was accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda’s East Africa branch.
With his release, 29 detainees remain at Guantanamo, down from a peak of nearly 800.
Of them 15 are eligible for transfer, three are eligible for a review for possible release, seven are facing charges and four have been convicted and sentenced, the Defense Department statement said.
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