Geagea jailed — the only warlord imprisoned after Lebanon's civil war

On 21 April 1994 Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was arrested and subsequently sentenced to multiple life terms for civil-war-era killings and a church bombing, and for "maintaining a militia in the guise of a political party." Though a 1991 amnesty had covered all other militia chiefs, Geagea — a leading opponent of the Syrian-dominated order — was singled out, then held for over 11 years in solitary confinement in an underground cell beneath the Defense Ministry.

Referenced entities

Parties

Lebanese Forces

Politicians

Samir Geagea party-leader

Sources

en.wikipedia.org

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Geagea jailed — the only warlord imprisoned after Lebanon's civil war [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8d0639f2-9baf-4f52-85e1-fbd6cff93f70

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Geagea jailed — the only warlord imprisoned after Lebanon's civil war." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8d0639f2-9baf-4f52-85e1-fbd6cff93f70.

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@misc{tayyar-event-8d0639f2-9baf-4f52-85e1-fbd6cff93f70,
  title     = {{Geagea jailed — the only warlord imprisoned after Lebanon's civil war}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8d0639f2-9baf-4f52-85e1-fbd6cff93f70},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1994-04-21. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1994-04-21. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.