The US Department of Defense said that Guantanamo Bay prisoner Reda bin Saleh Al-Yazidi has been returned to Tunisia.
He was found eligible for transfer from the detention center after a “rigorous interagency review process,” a news release said.
The Pentagon did not say whether Mr. Al-Yazidi had accepted any guilt.
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been used to hold what the United States calls illegal combatants captured during the US “war on terror.”
The camp is part of a US naval base complex in southeastern Cuba.
Pentagon statement He said 26 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay, including 14 eligible for transfer.
