ALincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - Page 10
Iceland offers passport to jailed Bobby Fischer
Tokyo — Chess legend Bobby Fischer has been granted an Icelandic passport and the right to reside there but has been refused permission to leave the detention center in Japan where he is being held pending deportation to the United States, his lawyers and supporters said Monday.
“His passport is waiting for him at the embassy,” said former Iceland parliament member Gudmundur Thorarinsson, who met with Fischer Monday, the day after the chess great was released from four days of solitary confinement.
Supporters said he was placed in isolation after getting into a scuffle with guards over their refusal to give him an egg for breakfast. Immigration officials were not available to comment.
