The U.S. Department of Defense says Guantanamo Bay prisoner Rida bin Saleh Yazidi has been deported back to Tunisia.

A press statement said he was found eligible for transfer from detention after a “rigorous interagency review process.”

The Pentagon did not say whether Mr. Yazdi had pleaded guilty.

Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been used to hold illegal combatants captured during the United States’ so-called “war on terror.”

The camp is part of a U.S. naval base complex in southeastern Cuba.

Pentagon statement There are still 26 detainees in Guantánamo Bay, 14 of whom are eligible for transfer.