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

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 ...

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 ...

NEWSMAKERS 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 ...

After his failed attempt to take power by storming parliament with armed supporters in 2000, George Speight was initially sentenced to death by hanging but that was later commuted to a life sentence.

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 ...

Failed coup leader George Speight, who was originally sentenced to death for treason, has been released from a Fijian jail after receiving a presidential pardon.

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 ...

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 ...