By NYTimes.com Switzerland will not extradite the film director Roman Polanski to the United States to face charges of unlawful sex with a minor because of a possible fault in the American application for his extradition, Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference on Monday. “He’s ...

In a new bid to conclude his long-running criminal case without returning to the U.S., Roman Polanski asked a Los Angeles judge Wednesday to sentence him in absentia for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. The request came in a letter presented to the supervising judge of the L.A. County Superior ...

Film director Roman Polanski will not be released from prison until Monday at the earliest, the Swiss justice ministry has confirmed. Officials say arrangements for his house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss Alps will not be in place before then. The 76-year-old has been granted bail after being arrested ...

Director Roman Polanski was transferred from prison to a Zurich hospital for medical examinations Friday. The hospitalization, which is expected to last several days, involves an undisclosed medical condition. The famed filmmaker was arrested in September on decades-old rape charges from the U.S., and ...

Roman Polanski remained at a medical center in Zurich, Switzerland, this morning, a day after being taken out of his prison cell for an undisclosed medical condition. “All I know is that he has been taken from prison for medical attention. I don’t know where he is or when he will be returned ...

By Examiner.com According to lawyers for embattled director Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winner is said to be profoundly “depressed.” Then again, if you were Roman Polanski, wouldn’t you be depressed too? more… window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: "166184776732236", ...