It was announced on Monday by the United States Department of Defense that one of the remaining inmates at the Guantánamo Bay military prison had been returned to Tunisia.
According to The New York Times, Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi was dispatched to the facility on the identical day that it opened, January 11, 2002, while President George W. Bush was in office.
According to a statement released by the Department of Defense, he was determined to be qualified for transfer “through a rigorous interagency review process.”
“In consultation with our partner in Tunisia, we completed the requirements for responsible transfer.”
This month, he was the fourth prisoner to be returned to Guantánamo from other facilities.
According to the statement, there are currently 26 inmates housed within the facility. When it was at its height, the location in the easternmost part of Cuba housed approximately 800 people in prison.
The detention facility, which is managed by the United States Navy, was established after President Bush declared a “war on terror” in response to the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
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The conditions at Guantánamo have been the subject of consistent criticism from human rights organizations, which have accused the United States of engaging in torture and other violations of human rights within the razor-wire perimeter of the facility. An expert from the United Nations has criticized it as a location of “unparalleled notoriety.”
Even though President Biden made a commitment to close Guantánamo before to his election, the facility is still operational. According to the Times, there were forty inmates at the time that Mr. Biden took office.
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According to the Department of Defense, fourteen of the twenty-six currently incarcerated individuals are eligible for transfer, three of them are eligible for evaluation by the review board, and seven of them are now being tried through the procedure of military tribunals. According to the Pentagon, the military commissions have only come to a decision regarding the conviction and punishment of the two remaining prisoners.