[those who thought that Bobby Fischer wouldn't win this struggle against
US persecution are going to be proved completely wrong -banana note]

From:

http://www.freebobbyfischer.net/blog...y_moved_fro.ht
ml#more

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August 14, 2004

Bobby moved from airport, documents at Germany embassy

Bobby Fischer has been moved out of Narita airport (east of Tokyo) to a
facility north of Tokyo, in a step that makes it more difficult for him
to be sent to the United States. The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer had
demanded that the 61-year-old world chess master be allowed to exercise
and have access to fresh air after Japanese immigration officials at the
airport unlawfully seized him on US orders on July 13.

Fischer was moved on Tuesday, August 10, to the East Japan Immigration
Center detention facility in the town of Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture,
about an hour north of Tokyo. His physical move away from the airport
gives his supporters more time and a better chance to block any further
illegal move to deport him.

On Thursday, August 12, John Bosnitch, who heads the Committee to Free
Bobby Fischer, submitted the initial documentation of Fischer's German
citizenship to the German embassy in Tokyo. The submitted papers,
accepted by embassy counselor Matthias Richter, include a certified copy
of Fischer's original birth certificate, which indicates that he was
born to a German father, establishing his German citizenship. However,
until German officials acknowledge the fact of his German citizenship in
writing, Fischer is also seeking the protection of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees for politically persecuted and stateless
persons.

Fischer's supporters are presenting the documentary proof of Fischer's
German citizenship so Japanese officials would have to deport him to
Germany instead of the United States if a deportation order were issued
against him. Fischer renounced US citizenship in a handwritten letter to
the US embassy that was delivered on Friday, August 6, after the US
embassy consular staff repeated refused to do their legal duty to visit
him in detention to take his renunciation declaration in person.

The arrest warrant for which the United States claims to have revoked
Fischer's passport – for allegedly violating a presidential order not to
visit the former Yugoslavia for a chess tournament in 1992 – is
unenforceable anywhere in the world except the United States

[This may be because no country in the world will extradite someone to
country X because country X claims that what the person did in country Y
was against the law of country X - banana note]

and Fischer could not be extradited or arrested. US officials therefore
stumbled onto the illegal alternative of trying to have Fischer deported
into US hands from a convenient "ally" like Japan as a way of getting
around Fischer's legal protections.

Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki filed a request for a legal injunction at
Tokyo District Court on Friday, August 6. That challenge to the
deportation process is still before the courts and no ruling is expected
until at least August 20.

Next update on this Web site is due to be posted on Monday, August 16,
2004.

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--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
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)