Majid Shoukat Khan (Urdu: ماجد شوکت خان, born February 28, 1980) is a Pakistani who was the only known legal resident of the United States held in the Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp. He was a " high value detainee " and was tortured by U.S. intelligence forces.

Feb 2, 2023 · The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Majid Khan from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Belize. Majid Khan pled guilty before a Military Commission in February...

May 9, 2024 · After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Khan joined Al Qaeda, agreed to become a suicide bomber and delivered $50,000 that would be used in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia. For his crimes,...

Feb 9, 2023 · Mr. Khan, 42, is the first prisoner to be freed from Guantánamo Bay who had been held there as a “high-value detainee,” the intelligence community’s phrase for a former prisoner of the Bush...

Oct 30, 2021 · Khan, a 41-year-old citizen of Pakistan who came to the U.S. in the 1990s and graduated from high school near Baltimore, earlier pleaded guilty to war crimes charges that included conspiracy and murder for his involvement in al-Qaida plots such as the deadly bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, in August 2003.

Feb 2, 2023 · Mr Khan is the first so-called “high-value” detainee to be released from the notorious US detention facility in Cuba, a description given to prisoners considered to be of the highest...

Feb 2, 2023 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Majid Khan, a one-time al-Qaida money courier and Pakistani citizen who grew up outside Baltimore, arrived in Belize on Thursday under a Biden administration agreement with...

October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer out of Guantánamo.

Oct 29, 2021 · Khan, a 41-year-old citizen of Pakistan who came to the U.S. in the 1990s and graduated from high school near Baltimore, earlier pleaded guilty to war crimes charges that included conspiracy and...

On February 2, 2023, Majid Khan was transferred to Belize. He is the first of the prisoners transferred from secret CIA detention to Guantánamo in September 2006 to be released, and the first third-country resettlement by the Biden administration.