Fiji's High Court sentenced indigenous coup leader George Speight to death for treason today but the South Pacific nation's president immediately commuted the sentence to life in prison.

SUVA, Fiji -- The would-be defense counsel for Fijian coup leader George Speight is facing his own legal problems following charges of felony, perverting the course of justice and producing false ...

after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament. Since the 1980s there have been four coups in Fiji - each with links to ethnic tension ...

after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament. Mr Chaudhry is the current leader of the Fiji Labour Party. “There was a lot of violence ...