Editing Samir Geagea (section)

=== Imprisonment ===
Geagea was incarcerated for 11 years in a small windowless solitary cell in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense in [[Yarze]].<ref>[http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/commission/thematic51/34.htm UN Commission on Human Rights – Torture – Special Rapporteur's Report]. ''United Nations Economic and Social Council'', 12 January 1995. Retrieved on 22 February 2008.</ref> His health status was jeopardized and he lost weight dramatically due to the unsanitary condition of the ill lit and poorly ventilated prison cell.<ref name="USDS">{{Cite conference|publisher=U.S. Department of State|last=U.S. Department of State|title=Lebanon Human Rights Practices, 1995|access-date=11 July 2009|date=March 1996|url=http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_nea/Lebanon.html|archive-date=8 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508224433/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_nea/Lebanon.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was deprived of access to media and the outside world and was only allowed to see his wife and close relatives. All of Geagea's conversations were monitored and he was barred from talking politics with anyone.<ref name="Lang">{{Cite news |last=Daragahi|first=Borzou|title =In Lebanon, rivals unconvinced by warlord's apology|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=11 July 2009|date=15 December 2008|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-15-fg-warlord15-story.html}}</ref>

For the duration of his incarceration, Geagea maintained that he meditated and reviewed his actions during the war to determine if what he did was right. He busied himself with reading literature, [[Hindu philosophy]], the [[Qur'an]], [[Christian theology]] and [[Christian mysticism|mysticism]] namely the works of [[Jesuit]] priest [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin|Teilhard de Chardin]].<ref name="LLcrime"/><ref name="Lang"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-15-fg-warlord15-story.html|title=An ex-warlord's act of contrition|date=15 December 2008|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>