Four British detainees who were released from the US Guantanamo Bay military camp and flown back to the country Tuesday were released without charge by police Wednesday night.  

The men had been held in custody at a high security police station since returning from captivity at the US military base in Cuba for as long as three years.

Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga, Feroz Abbasi and Richard Belmar were questioned by the British anti-terror police Wednesday and left the police station in the night, Scotland Yard said.

"Shortly before 9 PM four men arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on January 25 were released without charge," a Scotland Yard spokesman said.

They are now being reunited with their families at a location of their choice, police said.

Washington has said that the men, held at the US camp in Cuba after the United States accused them of having links with al-Qaeda, had been released after a request was made by the British government during talks.

Five other British detainees were freed from Guantanamo last year and were released in Britain without charge after being questioned by British police.

(Xinhua News Agency January 27, 2005)