Roman Polanski a free man

Roman Polanski via last.fm

After being arrested overseas, and facing a possible extradition to the U.S. for the charge of having sex with a minor back in 1977, film director Roman Polanski was released by the Swiss Government.


According to The Guardian, The Swiss government has decided NOT to extradite Mr. Polanski back to the U.S. (where he is wanted for sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl 33 years ago) on the grounds that U.S. authorities failed to provide confidential testimony about Polanski’s sentencing procedure in 1977-78.

“The Swiss justice ministry will not extradite Roman Polanski to the United States,” Eveline Widner-Schlumpf, a ministry official said at a press conference in Bern. “The Franco-Polish film-maker will not be extradited to the United States, and the measures of restriction on his liberty have been lifted…Polanski is now a free man.”

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