MOSCOW, January 10 (RAPSI) - A US government review panel decided Thursday that a Yemeni man who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for upwards of a decade can be released from custody, the US Department of Defense announced Thursday.

The Periodic Review Board (PRB) was established in order to determine whether certain of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center continue to pose a significant threat to US security, and thus whether such individuals should remain in custody there.

The outcome of the PRB’s first review, pertaining to detainee Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid, were announced as follows Thursday: “the PRB recommended conditions relating to Mujahid's transfer. These conditions are consistent with those imposed for the transfer of other Yemeni nationals who are currently in the ‘conditional detention’ category - specifically, that the security situation improves in Yemen, that an appropriate rehabilitation program becomes available, or that an appropriate third country resettlement option becomes available.”

The Miami Herald reported that Mujahid was initially transferred to Guantanamo Bay’s detention center on January 11, 2002 based on suspicions that he had served as Osama Bin Ladin’s bodyguard. According to the report, he now joins the ranks of 76 other detainees who are now technically approved for release.

According to the report, he was listed in 2010 as among the detention center’s prisoners who were considered too dangerous for release, but who – owing to a lack of evidence – could not be prosecuted for a crime.