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Last Updated: Monday, 21 March, 2005, 19:12 GMT
Iceland grants Fischer passport
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been granted Icelandic citizenship after a vote in the country's parliament.
Mr Fischer, 62, has been on the run from the US for more than 10 years for violating economic sanctions in a match he played in former Yugoslavia in 1992.
Japan, where Mr Fischer is being held, has said it will not deport him to the US if Iceland grants him citizenship.
Mr Fischer beat Soviet Boris Spassky for the world title in Iceland in 1972.
That match ended a long Soviet domination of the chess world, and was hailed in the US as a Cold War victory.
But Mr Fischer's 1992 rematch against Mr Spassky, which the American also won, was deemed a violation of sanctions.
He was detained in July for trying to leave Japan on an allegedly revoked US passport.
On the run
Iceland's parliament voted 40 to nothing in favour of granting citizenship, with two abstentions.
Why does Iceland support Fischer?
"I am very pleased with this, and I think that the dignity of the parliament has increased," said one of Mr Fischer's key supporters, Saemundur Palsson.
"I hope that he will stop cursing the Americans now. It has got him into so much trouble."
MPs in Iceland voted last month against granting Mr Fischer citizenship, offering him instead a special foreigners' passport and rights to residence.
Japan, however, refused to release the chess champion on such grounds.
After the quick passage of the new legislation, Icelandic officials said a passport could be ready for him as early as Tuesday.
Before he was taken into custody, he had managed to live undetected in Japan for three years, sometimes travelling abroad.
While in detention, he become engaged to the head of the Japan Chess Association, Miyoko Watai, but the authorities are still studying their marriage application.
2005年03月22日11時08分
入管法違反(不法入国)の疑いで、茨城県牛久市の東日本入国管理センターに収容されているチェスの元世界王者、ボビー・フィッシャーさん(62)=米国籍=に対し、アイスランドの国会が21日(日本時間22日未明)、市民権を与える議決をした。法務省は国籍のある米国への送還手続きを進めていたが、「市民権があれば第三国でも可能」としており、アイスランドへの出国を前向きに検討する方針だ。
フィッシャーさんは昨年7月に日本からフィリピンに出国しようとした際、旅券が失効していたことが発覚し、東京入国管理局成田空港支局に収容された。その後牛久市の施設に移され、8月に米国への退去強制令書が出た。
フィッシャーさんは92年に米国が経済制裁していたユーゴスラビア(現セルビア・モンテネグロ)でのチェスの対局に出場して賞金約300万ドルを得たため、米国で制裁違反の罪に問われている。このため米国への出国は希望せず、アイスランド行きを求めていた。
アイスランドでフィッシャーさんは「英雄」として人気が高く、同国は早くから受け入れを表明して外国人用の旅券を発給していた。