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 ...

Former coup leader George Speight, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, was released from prison today after he was pardoned by Fiji’s mercy commission, officials said.

The High Court of Fiji has ordered a magistrate not to rule on treason charges against coup leader George Speight and 11 other detainees, preventing their release. The court's intervention points ...

His release has left Fiji grappling once again ... brought to us about the carriage of arms in and around Suva by George Speight and his bodyguards and also threats to the head of state".

At Suva’s Fiji Golf Club, George Speight wasn’t the most popular of ... forfeited the amnesty promised them in the hostage-release deal by refusing to surrender all their weapons.