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LF Activists Pray
on Knees for Geagea's
Release
April 16, 2003
Scores of Lebanese Forces
activists have staged
a mass prayer on their
knees at the campus of
St. Joseph University
in Beirut for the release
of their imprisoned leader
Samir Geagea, held for
nine years in solitary
confinement at Lebanon's
defense ministry in Yarze.
Portraits of the onetime
Christian warlord were
pinned on their chests
along with the LF crosses
as they dropped to their
knees for the prayer that
marked the lapse of 3,280
days since Geagea was
arrested in 1994 after
his LF party was outlawed
by the government. "Geagea
is the symbol of steadfastness,
the symbol of Lebanon's
cause," read one
poster spanning the camps
of the university's engineering
faculty in Mansourieh,
where the LF spent the
second day of the Solidarity-with-Geagea
Week.
The protestors shouted
such chants as "no
national reconciliation
without the LF" and
"no LF without its
leader." Patriotic
songs blared from loudspeakers
across the campus.
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