December 18 (UPI) — Two men jailed at Guantanamo Bay for 18 years in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed more than 200 people, were repatriated to Malaysia on Wednesday, according to US authorities.

Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep were handed over to the Malaysian government to serve the remainder of their five-year prison sentences after pleading guilty in a Military Commission court to multiple violations of the laws of war, including murder, bodily harm, conspiracy, and property destruction, according to a Defence Department news release. “Pursuant to a pretrial agreement between the United States and the two men, each has cooperated with the U.S. Government and has provided deposition testimony available for use against the alleged mastermind, Encep Nurjaman, of the al-Qaida-affiliated attacks on nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia in 2002, and the attack on the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2003,” according to the Pentagon. Three men were arrested in Thailand in 2003 and handed over to U.S. authorities which only announced they were moving ahead with plans to put them on trial in 2021.

Bin Amin and bin Lep were each sentenced to five years in prison in June after admitting guilty, with the suggestion that both individuals be repatriated or moved to a third-party sovereign nation to spend the remainder of the agreed sentence. The transfer, which came five weeks after Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin informed Congress of his intention to repatriate the pair to Malaysia, is part of ongoing efforts to phase out the detention camp at the US naval station on Cuba’s southern coast that held militants, captured battlefield combatants, and terrorism suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Separately, the Pentagon reported Wednesday that Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu had been turned over to the Kenyan authorities after being detained in Guantanamo since 2007 on suspicion of being a facilitator for an al-Qaida group in East Africa.

He was captured by Kenyan officials in connection with the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, which killed 13 people and injured approximately 80 others, and turned over to US authorities, although he was never charged with any crime. According to Pentagon estimates, Wednesday’s transfers brought the total number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to 27, with 15 available for transfer and three eligible for the Periodic Review Board.