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Fischer's Icelandic passport arrives; Japan cuts off all his contacts
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| banana 2005-03-03, 6:07 pm |
| The latest news is that while the Icelandic embassy in Tokyo holdsF
Fischer's Icelandic passport, the Japanese authorities have cut off all
of his contacts with the outside world, including with lawyers, the
media, and visitors. Two days ago they also prevented him meeting with
Icelandic officials. Let us hope that a handover to US captors is not
imminent.
Press release from the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer:
***BEGIN***
URGENT: Free Bobby Fischer!
CRISIS NEWS CONFERENCE
FRIDAY, March 4, 1:30 PM
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
Iceland Delivers Fischer Passport, But Visitors Refused Access
Bobby Fischer Being Held Incommunicado
The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer will be holding a news conference on
Friday, March 4, 2005 starting from 1:30 PM at the Foreign
Correspondents' Club of Japan to report on the latest developments in
the case:
Iceland has delivered a passport for Bobby Fischer to its embassy in
Tokyo and is now consulting on the appropriate way to get it into his
hands.
Two delegations have arrived in Tokyo from Iceland to secure Bobby's
release. The first is led by Mr. Saemi Palsson, Bobby's personal friend
and the chief of his security when he played the 1972 chess world
championship in Iceland. Palsson is accompanied by media representatives
from the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation's Channel 2 Television
station. The second delegation is a group of eminent citizens including
Einar S. Einarsson, Icelandic chess federation chief, Gardar Sverrisson,
leading campaigner for Bobby Fischer and activist in Icelandic public
affairs, and Gudmundur G. Thorarinsson, former member of parliament and
organizer of the 1972 world chess championship.
These leading Icelandic figures will be joining Japan Chess Association
chief Miyoko Watai, Fischer's lead lawyer Masako Suzuki, and Committee
to Free Bobby Fischer chairman John Bosnitch at the news conference.
Bobby Fischer filed an application for voluntary departure to Iceland
last Friday and the Committee will be announcing the action it is taking
to demand an immediate Japanese government response.
The Icelandic delegation hopes to take Bobby back to Iceland with them
by his 62nd birthday, on March 9th. However, detention center officials
refused them the right to even meet with Bobby Fischer at the East Japan
Immigration Detention Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture when they
arrived there on Wednesday, March 2.
The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer is deeply concerned that this
unprecedented denial of visits to Bobby Fischer might reflect an effort
by the authorities to put even further psychological pressure on him in
these critical moments of the battle for his freedom. As of Wednesday,
Bobby Fischer's rights to make phone calls out to his lawyers,
supporters, and the media were also cut off. The Committee can no
longer in any way confirm the physical safety or health of Mr. Robert
James Fischer.
Friday's news conference will address these very worrisome new
developments and the steps that Bobby Fischer's supporters are taking to
try to confirm his status.
Media contact...
John Bosnitch
Committee to Free Bobby Fischer
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http://www.freebobbyfischer.net
[...]
***END***
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give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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| Mike Murray 2005-03-03, 6:07 pm |
| On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:52:21 +0000, banana
<banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
quote:
>The Icelandic delegation hopes to take Bobby back to Iceland with them
>by his 62nd birthday, on March 9th. However, detention center officials
>refused them the right to even meet with Bobby Fischer at the East Japan
>Immigration Detention Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture when they
>arrived there on Wednesday, March 2.
quote:
>The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer is deeply concerned that this
>unprecedented denial of visits to Bobby Fischer might reflect an effort
>by the authorities to put even further psychological pressure on him in
>these critical moments of the battle for his freedom. As of Wednesday,
>Bobby Fischer's rights to make phone calls out to his lawyers,
>supporters, and the media were also cut off. The Committee can no
>longer in any way confirm the physical safety or health of Mr. Robert
>James Fischer.
It's possible he's been injured and the Japanese officials are
stalling until he's more presentable.
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| Hans Jørgen Lassen 2005-03-04, 3:50 am |
| "Mike Murray" wrote:
quote:
> It's possible he's been injured and the Japanese officials are
> stalling until he's more presentable.
That theory would fit the facts.
Other theories are possible too, though. Maybe the Japanese are trying to
delay things in order to find new grounds and ways to hold Fischer and send
him to the US, before he escapes to Iceland.
Or maybe its sheer harassment.
HansJ
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| Morphy's ghost 2005-03-04, 3:50 am |
| In the year of our Lord Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:16:15 +0100, "Hans Jørgen
Lassen" <hj.lassen@privat.dk> wrote:
quote:
>"Mike Murray" wrote:
>
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>That theory would fit the facts.
>Other theories are possible too, though. Maybe the Japanese are trying to
>delay things in order to find new grounds and ways to hold Fischer and send
>him to the US, before he escapes to Iceland.
>Or maybe its sheer harassment.
>HansJ
>
>
Lord knows that I don't know much about the Japanese justice system,
but I'd guess that your delaying theory is probably closest to the
truth. Certainly that would be a reasonable theory in the US.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself. -- William Blake
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| Orange_Chess 2005-03-04, 5:51 pm |
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quote:
> URGENT: Free Bobby Fischer!
> CRISIS NEWS CONFERENCE
> FRIDAY, March 4, 1:30 PM
> Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
I assume this is 1:30 PM Japan time which is 12:30 AM EST Friday March
4th?
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| Hans Jørgen Lassen 2005-03-07, 5:52 pm |
| "Mike Murray" wrote:
quote:
> It's possible he's been injured and the Japanese officials are
> stalling until he's more presentable.
That theory would fit the facts.
Other theories are possible too, though. Maybe the Japanese are trying to
delay things in order to find new grounds and ways to hold Fischer and send
him to the US, before he escapes to Iceland.
Or maybe its sheer harassment.
HansJ
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