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SAUDI man Abdul Shalabi has been released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, after nine years on hunger strike.
Mr Shalabi has been sent back to Saudi Arabia.
His release, the second this month, brings the prisoner population at Guantanamo to 114, including 52 who have been approved for transfer.
He was among the first prisoners taken to the prison in January 2002.
The US claimed he had been a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden and an associate of other senior al-Qaida figures, but he was never charged with a crime.
Mr Shalabi began a hunger strike in 2005 to protest against his confinement.
He and another prisoner, who was released in 2009, maintained the protest longer than any others held at the base.
His lawyer told the review board in April that prison officials had forcibly fed him with a nasogastric tube daily for nine years.
