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Posted by Anonymous on July 25, 2004 - 07:58.
Now, regarding Bobby Fischer's detention room at Narita Airport, here's the inside skinny so to speak. Bobby-san is in the B-4 underground level of the Airport complex, and he is in a room with 8-9 other detainess, some of whom will leave for the home countries soon, others who must wait for a papers to be completed before then can be deported. Bobby is in a room that has a tatami floor, and there is a clean toilet in the room for all cellmates to use. He is fed good Japanese food three times a day, large helpings of rice, porridge, fish, meats, vegetables and soups. Fruit too. At lights out at 9 pm, he must sleep on a futon on the floor with the other cellmates, and an electric light is on all night, according to inside sources who know the set up there. The guards are friendly but firm. They feel sorry for Bobby but they are following orders and if he gives them any trouble, they will handle him that way. If he gets too rambuctious, he will be put in a straitjacket room and kept solitary and incommunicato until he decides to be more friendly. However, for now he is in the main detainee room, green walls, tatami floor, toilet and a slot for food to be passed in to the men there.

There is no exercise there, just the detention cell. If he stays for more than 20 days, he will be taken to Kosuge Jail in downtown Tokyo, an hour from the airport by prison bus, where he will be roped to other prisoners, er, detainees. His hands will also be cuffed to the bars behind each bus seat. At the Tokyo Detention House, or Kosuge, he will be kept in a solitary cell, toilet inside the room, big enough for a futon on the floor and that's it. A window, barred of course, will give him a view of the inside courtyard with trees and grass. He can hear the birds singing in the morning.

At deportation time, Bobby-san will be taken back to Narita Airport B4 level, and processed out. He will be escorted by two immigration policemen, with his hands in handcuffs, yes, but there is a polite blue cloth covering the handcuffs so that passersby and passengers in the public terminal on the ground floor of the aiport will not SEE the handcuffs. But they will see Bobby in his humiliatin, escorted by the two beefy immig cops, all the way to the airplane that will fly him back to the USA. He must return to USA, period. He cannot be deported to a third country. He is heading to the USA, period.

At the boarding gate for the internatioinal flight home, Bobby's handcuffs will be taken off and he will invited to enter the airplane's cabin. If he doesn't enter, there could be trouble.

NOTES FROM SOMEONE WHO's BEEN THERE DONE THAT AT NARITA KUKO