A Guantanamo Bay detainee was transferred to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, and will be serving the remainder of his sentence in the kingdom. The transport was the yield of efforts invested to bring back Saudi detainees held abroad. “As part of the efforts to bring back Saudis detained outside the kingdom, Ahmed Haza al-Darbi was transferred from the Guantanamo Bay detention center,” said government spokesman Brigadier Bassam Attiya. “Darbi arrived in the Kingdom at Wednesday evening, and his relatives were informed of his arrival, arrangement and provision of all facilities to meet with them were made,” he added. Attiya added that Darbi will be subject to regulations in Saudi Arabia, which includes the benefit of the programs of the Mohammed bin Nayef Counseling and Care Center. Darbi was arrested in 2002 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention center in 2003. Last year, a military jury sentenced him to 13 years in prison for helping al-Qaeda militants detonate bombs in the Arabian Sea after the September 11 attacks. Darbi’s defense lawyer arranged for a side-by-side agreement so that the transferred inmate carries out the remainder of his sentences at a rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia. On the last day of his Guantanamo detention, Darby reviewed in his testimony ill-treatment he received such as “sleep deprivation, tight shackles,” alongside a score of actions he labeled as “repeated torture.” In past years, security authorities in Saudi Arabia agreed with their US counterparts to transfer a number of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention center and who were arrested in conflict zones after the events of September 11, 2001. Transferred inmates are subjected to medical examination, allowed visits by relatives, and are put up for investigation in preparation for their files to be set for trial before Saudi courts.