As today marks the 25th year since the May 19th coup led by George Speight, the Prime Minister at the time, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

Fiji's Attorney-General Graham Leung condemned ... After his failed coup in 2000, George Speight was initially sentenced to death by hanging but that was later commuted to a life sentence.

A Fiji politics watcher doubts the 2000 coup frontman George Speight will seek to involve himself in Fijian politics, after being released from prison last week. Speight held the country's first prime ...

A Fiji politics watcher doubts the 2000 coup frontman George Speight will seek to involve himself in Fijian politics, after being released from prison last week. Speight held the country's first prime ...

Those are the words of former Prime Minister and Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry after the release of George Speight who led the 2000 invasion of Parliament to oust the democratically ...

The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens, have been granted presidential pardons. In a statement, the Fiji Correction ...

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.

SYDNEY - 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 Commission ...

George Speight, a well-known former Fijian businessman, led an armed takeover of Fiji's government in May 2000, holding the country's then-prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government ...