The US Department of Defense says that Guantanamo Bay detainee Radah Ben Saleh El-Yazidi has been returned to Tunisia.
He was found eligible for transfer from the detention center after a “rigorous interagency review process,” a press statement said.
Human rights groups say Mr Yazidi was one of the original inmates of the prison in January 2002. The Pentagon has not said whether he has pleaded guilty.
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been used to house illegal combatants arrested during the US “war on terror”. Being used for
The camp is part of a US naval base complex in southeastern Cuba.
According to the New York Times, Mr. Yazidi was never charged and the transfer was approved more than a decade ago.
Human Rights Watch and Cage International said they had been at Guantanamo Bay since it was first established in 2002.
Monday, according to the Pentagon statementThere are 26 detainees remaining at Guantanamo Bay, 14 of whom are eligible for transfer.
Earlier in December, the Pentagon announced that the US had repatriated three other detainees. The news agency Associated Press reported..
The camp was established by the Bush administration to interrogate and prosecute the most dangerous suspects for war crimes.
Controversy centers around the time detainees were held without charge and the interrogation techniques used.