The Pentagon announced Bajabu's release on Tuesday, saying Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had notified Congress of the decision to repatriate him to Kenya last month.
Reprieve US, which represented Bajabu, welcomed his release, saying that he was tortured by Kenyan authorities as well as US military personnel.
His children, infants when he was tortured, interrogated and shipped to Guantanamo, are now grown. That debt can never be repaid, but the least the US can do is ensure that Abdulmalik receives the support and the space he needs to begin his life anew.
The Guantanamo detention facility opened in 2002 to house detainees captured during the so-called war on terror after the 9/11 attacks.
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