Fiji Names Treason Trial JudgeThe treason trial of Fiji coup leader George Speight and the other perpetrators of last year's parliamentary takeover is set to go ahead on Friday, 31s August.The presiding judge has been named as Justice Peter Summon, of the Fiji High Court. Speight, including his younger brother James, and former journalist, Josefa Nata, were charged with treason last year. They have been kept in the custody of the Fiji Prisons Department at a makeshift island prison of Nukulau, off Suva, since August last year. The maximum sentence for treason in Fiji is life imprisonment. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ |