The US Department of Defense announced on Monday that a detainee has been repatriated from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Tunisia. This marks the fourth detainee to be transferred this month. The individual, Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, aged 59, was deemed eligible for transfer following a thorough interagency review process. He had been held at the facility for over 22 years without being charged with a crime.
Yazidi, a Tunisian national, was first detained at Guantanamo on its opening day in January 2002. While a 2007 US military assessment accused him of being a member of the militant group al Qaeda, human rights groups have criticized the reliability of such assessments. Despite being cleared for transfer since 2007 by both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, a release deal was never finalized, leading to his prolonged detention.
