Guantanamo Bay detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been extradited to Tunisia, the Pentagon said.
He was found eligible for transfer from detention after a “rigorous inter-agency review process,” according to a press statement.
The Pentagon did not say whether Mr. Yazidi had pleaded guilty.
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been used to house illegal combatants captured during the United States’ “war on terror.”
The camp is part of a complex of U.S. naval bases in southeastern Cuba.
Yazidi has never been indicted and was approved for transfer more than a decade ago, according to an unconfirmed report in the New York Times.
The newspaper also reported that he had been there since 2002, when the Guantanamo Bay facility was first established.
Monday, according to the Pentagon. nameCurrently, 26 prisoners remain in Guantanamo Bay, of which 14 are subject to transfer.
In early December, the Pentagon announced that the United States had repatriated three other detainees. The Associated Press reported..
The camp was established by the Bush administration to detain the most dangerous suspects for interrogation and prosecution of war crimes.
The controversy centered on the length of time prisoners were detained without charge and the interrogation techniques used.
