Fiji hopes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its history of violent coups can heal the divisions between its two main ...

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 ...

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. Speight ...

George Speight was elected to parliament after his failed coup, but could not attend as he was in custody. (Reuters: Jason Reed) Speight and his group were later hauled off to a military barracks.

It took two months, but by the time George Speight freed the last of his 43 M.P. hostages from Suva’s Parliament building, he had done more damage than one of the cyclones that periodically ...

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 ...

At Suva’s Fiji Golf Club, George Speight wasn’t the most popular of partners. He had only three topics, one fellow member recalled: himself, money, and the evils of Mahendra Chaudhry’s ...

Even though Fiji's newly named cabinet includes two of George Speight's supporters, only one woman and no ethnic Indians, the nationalist coup leader has rejected it and predicted a return to ...

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, officials said.

Former businessman George Speight stormed the nation's parliament in May 2000 with an Indigenous nationalist group, holding the prime minister and cabinet members hostage for 56 days.