Director Roman Polanski was arrested by the police on Saturday after flying into Switzerland for the Zurich Film Festival — now the biggest question is whether he will be extradited to the U.S. for ...

ZURICH/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fugitive director Roman Polanski, whose tumultuous life has overshadowed his film career, was arrested this weekend in Zurich after U.S. authorities sought to have him ...

GENEVA -- First numbered bank accounts and now Roman Polanski. Switzerland is no longer a place for foreign fugitives and tax evaders to live above the law. Polanski's arrest for extradition to the ...

Did Roman Polanski‘s recent attempts to have a decades-old statutory rape charge dropped somehow accelerate the extradition efforts that led to his arrest in Switzerland? Earlier this year, lawyers ...

Roman Polanski's lawyer has said that the director is "in a fighting mood" after being arrested in Switzerland yesterday. The Oscar-winning director will battle attempts by the US to extradite him to ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Roman Polanski, in a rare interview published on Thursday, shares his frustrations and feelings about being the object of hatred due to a complicated legal case ...

Samantha Geimer has long asked US authorities to stop pursuing filmmaker Roman Polanski for having sex with her in 1977, when she was 13. Now, she may make the request for the first time in court.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case involving Roman Polanski, who fled the United States after he forced himself on a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot, has spanned 45 years, sparking court battles on ...

IT WAS ONLY a short time ago that the world was shocked by the spy allegations surrounding the Czech-born writer Milan Kundera – a case that traced back to the 1950s. Last month, it was announced that ...

Swiss court grants Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski bail. Nov. 25, 2009 — -- Roman Polanskwas granted bail today after two months in a jail cell. Polanski, 76, was granted bail by a Swiss ...

Filmmaker Roman Polanski says letters from supporters that he received in a Swiss prison and while under house arrest at his Alpine chalet have been “full of comfort and reason to hope.” Polanski’s ...

Roman Polanski is released from Swiss prison and moved to luxurious home. GSTAAD, Switzerland, Dec. 4, 2009 — -- Director Roman Polanski moved today in a police convoy from a Swiss prison to ...