Brian Bouffard, the lawyer for one of the convicted Malaysians, Nazir Lep, said the pair would instead remain at the US-operated Guantanamo Bay detention centre. The high-profile detention centre was set up in 2002 to detain terrorist suspects after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York a year earlier. “They will have to remain in Guantanamo Bay to finish the rest of their sentence or until they are repatriated to a third country. As of December 2023, 30 detainees remained at Guantanamo Bay. He served two terms as US president but the Guantanamo detention centre still exists.
