The United States says a Guantanamo inmate has been returned to Tunisia

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.

According to an unconfirmed New York Times report, Mr. Al-Yazidi was never charged, and his transfer was approved more than a decade ago.

The newspaper also said he had been at Guantanamo Bay since the facility was first established in 2002.

According to the Pentagon on Monday statement26 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay, including 14 eligible for transfer.

Earlier in December, the Pentagon announced that the United States had repatriated three more detainees. Associated Press reported.

The Bush administration established this camp to detain the most dangerous suspects for interrogation and prosecution of war crimes.

The controversy centered around the period of time that detainees were held without charge and the use of interrogation techniques.