It took two months, but by the time George Speight freed the last of his 43 M.P. hostages from Suva’s Parliament building, he had done more damage than one of the cyclones that periodically ...

Hours after he was sentenced to death for treason, coup leader George Speight was spared when Fiji’s president commuted his sentence to life in prison. President Josefa Iloilo commuted the ...

George Speight, the rebel leader whose raid on Parliament plunged Fiji into two months of crisis, smiled and listened to cheers from hundreds of supporters as he was driven to court in Suva ...

News that he death penalty handed down to George Speight has been commuted to a life sentence capped a day of high drama in Fiji. It is yet another spectacular twist in Fiji's painful journey through ...

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George Speight, who was found guilty of treason after leading a failed coup in May 2000, has received a presidential pardon and been released from prison. Speight held the country's then-prime ...

Samisoni Speight Tikoinasau, the older brother of 2000 coup leader George Speight, was arrested for distributing a DVD opposing the regime of Commodore Frank Bainimarama. The DVD was produced by a ...

George Speight, the man who led a coup against the Fiji government in May 2000, has had his death sentence for treason commuted to life imprisonment. Speight led an armed gang of nationalists who ...

Speight, 43, part-European and fond of golf and get-rich-quick schemes, had less in common with his ragged retainers than with his bosses, a cabal of former army officers, politicians, young-Turk ...

George Speight was described as a political lightweight when he staged his extraordinary coup in Fiji in May 2000 - but he has since demonstrated considerable political cunning. While he was being ...