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Geagea's Prison
Conditions Reported Improved
May 27, 2003
Samir Geagea's prison
conditions at the defense
ministry compound in Yarze
have lately been improved,
An Nahar said in a 12-word
news tidbit in Arabic
Tuesday, giving no further
details. Several human
rights organizations at
home and abroad have long
protested the harsh treatment
the commander of the Lebanese
Forces has been getting
since he was held in solitary
confinement in a windowless
underground cell since
1994.
LF activists have recently
marked his ninth year
in prison by rallies calling
for his release as a precondition
for genuine national reconciliation
in Lebanon to bring down
the curtain on the fallout
of Lebanon's 1975-199
civil war once and for
all. Some 60,000 signatures
have been collected in
less than two months for
a public petition calling
for Geagea's release either
by a presidential parole
or an amnesty bill in
parliament.
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