The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo.
On February 24, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, reported that Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Tunisian, Saleh Bin Hadi Asasi and Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad and Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al Qusin, an Egyptian, and a Libyan.
On July 27, 2012, Tunisia Live asserted the five remaining Tunisian captives would be repatriated by the end of 2012.
[6] Previously, the risk of torture under the Ben Ali regime meant the five Tunisian detainees could not safely return home.
Now, with Tunisia's democratic transition in full effect, there is nothing to prevent these Tunisian citizens returning to their country.