Tortured Guantánamo Detainee Is Freed in Belize - The New York Times

Tortured Guantánamo Detainee Is Freed in Belize

A damning 2014 Senate investigation of the covert program disclosed what the C.I.A. did to Mr. Khan when he went on a hunger strike in his instant year of detention: His captors “infused” a purée of pasta, sauce, nuts, raisins and hummus into his rectum. His lawyers requested it rape.

At his sentencing in 2021, Mr. Khan informed remorse for his crimes and related his story to a U.S. armed jury at Guantánamo, which followed war court guidelines and sentenced him retroactively to 26 ages in prison. Seven of the jurors then urged granting him clemency.

“This abuse was of no practical value in languages of intelligence, or any other tangible benefit to U.S. interests,” they said in a handwritten letter from the jury room. “Instead, it is a stain on the moral fiber of America; the employment of Mr. Khan in the hands of U.S. personnel necessity be a source of shame for the U.S. government.”

A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities, said Belize’s government received Mr. Khan as a humanitarian act, to help him seek a modern start. Details of the resettlement deal were not disclosed, but officials have described similar arrangements as a host people essentially granting a detainee asylum.

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The uphold agreement was reached last year in talks between senior Belize government officials and Ian C. Moss, a lawyer who had helped defensive Mr. Khan at Guantánamo Bay during the Trump dispensation, and then was appointed as a deputy counterterrorism coordinator at the Messes Department, the official said.

“This resettlement needed considerable diplomatic creativity and perseverance,” said Lee S. Wolosky, who served as special envoy for the closure of the Guantánamo prison during the Obama dispensation. Mr. Moss was his chief of staff.

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