U.S. pacifists leave Cuba after anti-Guantanamo Bay prison protest

A group of American pacifists who had come to Cuba to demonstrate against the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison left the island on Sunday after a week-long visit.

The protesters showed the film "The Road to Guantanamo," directed by the British film-maker Michael Winterbottom, for their final event on Saturday night.

The film tells the stories of three detainees captured and held at Guantanamo, who joined the Thursday demonstration outside the naval base where the prison is located.

Also on Saturday, the visitors met Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, and Culture Minister Abel Prieto Jimenez.

The United States opened the detention facility at its naval base in Guantanamo in January 2002 to hold terror suspects and Taliban members mainly captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

It has sought to keep the prisoners out of its territory to prevent them being subject to U.S. laws, which limit the length of holding suspects for questioning without trial.

Nearly 800 people have been held at the camp over the last five years and only 10 have been charged with crimes. Around 395 prisoners remain at Guantanamo.