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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Former businessman George Speight stormed the nation's parliament ... And while many in Fiji believe he served enough time in prison, and support his release, some members of the Indo-Fijian ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, was released from prison on Thursday after he was pardoned by Fiji's ...