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Guantanamo Bay inmate Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been repatriated to Tunisia, the US Department of Defense says.<\/p>\n
He was found eligible for transfer from the detention facility after a “rigorous interagency review process”, a press statement said.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups say Mr Yazidi was one of the prison’s original detainees in January 2002. The Pentagon did not say if he had accepted any guilt. <\/p>\n
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been used to hold what the US describes as captured unlawful combatants during America’s “war on terror”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The camp is part of a US naval base complex in south-eastern Cuba.<\/p>\n
According to the New York Times, Mr Yazidi was never charged and was approved for transfer more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch and Cage International said he had been at Guantanamo Bay since the facility was first set up in 2002.<\/p>\n
According to Monday’s Pentagon statement<\/a>, 26 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay, of whom 14 are eligible for transfer.<\/p>\n Earlier in December, the Pentagon announced that the US had repatriated three other detainees, the Associated Press news agency reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The camp was established by the Bush administration to detain the most dangerous suspects for interrogation and the prosecution of war crimes.<\/p>\n Controversy has centred around the period of time detainees have been held without charge and the use of interrogation techniques.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n