Inspired, young women wrote songs for him (“George Speight, I’m behind you all the ... And they only think about advancing their own tribe or family, not the whole nation.” ...

At Suva’s Fiji Golf Club, George Speight wasn’t the most popular of ... whose aristocratic family are rivals of former President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, a key target of the coup.

SUVA, Fiji, July 27 (Thursday) -- George Speight, who toppled Fiji's elected government in a two-month hostage standoff, was arrested Wednesday and accused of threatening the island nation's new ...

Former businessman George Speight stormed the nation's parliament ... After he walked free last week, Speight's family said he didn't plan to speak publicly any time soon. But his release from ...

George Speight, the rebel leader who led a two-month hostage crisis that paralyzed the ethnically divided nation, promised further unrest after he rejected a Cabinet named by Fiji's new president.

Fijian former coup leader George Speight was granted a presidential pardon and freed on Thursday, after spending 24 years in jail on treason charges. Fiji Corrections Service said that the ...

Suva - Fiji's new president - a frail and elderly tribal chief - has named the country's new cabinet, which consists of at least two supporters of nationalist coup leader George Speight ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (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 Mercy ...

Meanwhile, Mr Speight's private army grew as a number of soldiers and their officers defected to the other side. Mr Speight had been expected to have strong influence over the formation of the new ...