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Patriarch Urges
Prompt Freedom to Geagea,
Lebanon
August 2, 2004
The head of Lebanon's
Maronite Church has renewed
his plea for a prompt
release of Lebanese Forces
commander Samir Geagea
from jail, asserting such
a move would help bring
about a true national
reconciliation and stamp
out the lingering animosities
of the civil war.
Patriarch Sfeir was responding
to a delegation from Bisharre,
Geagea's hometown, that
visited him at his Diman
summer residence Sunday,
seeking redoubled efforts
to end Geagea's plight
of 10 years in solitary
confinement at the Defense
Ministry prison in Yarze,
the Beirut media reported
Monday.
"The
persistent incarceration
of Samir Geagea is a sin
no longer acceptable and
is a crime against a large
segment of the Lebanese
people," orated the
leader of the visiting
delegation Chadi Dirani.
"We have demanded
more than once what you
are demanding now,"
the patriarch responded.
"We hope that the
affair will be resolved
by those who are supposed
to listen to prove that
they have listened and
heeded your hope and the
hope of many Lebanese
that Samir Geagea and
Lebanon are set free."
The patriarch also expressed
his hope for a "comprehensive
reconciliation covering
the entire people of Lebanon
so that no one would feel
he is a stranger in his
country."
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