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 ...

George Speight pleaded guilty to treason when he appeared in the Fiji High Court this morning. Speight was ordered to be taken from the court to a prison and then to a place of execution and be ...

Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, has been released from prison after being pardoned by Fiji's Mercy Commission, officials say.

Fiji coup leader George Speight on Tuesday began a life prison term for treason after escaping the hangman's noose, but few in the ethnically divided South Pacific nation believe he will spend the ...