Roman Polanski will collect the lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival - two years after he was awarded it.

THE Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man yesterday after rejecting a US request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Roman Polanski’s victim cannot ask for the 32-year-old sex case to be dismissed against the fugitive film director or affect the case, US prosecutors told a court.

Roman Polanski’s extradition to the US in on indefinite hold.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case, a Los Angeles judge said.

A Los Angeles judge said tonight fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has asked a judge to sentence him in his absence over a child sex case, a Los Angeles court was told early today.

Roman Polanski’s long-running sex case could soon be settled in a court deal even as the fugitive film director remains under house arrest in Switzerland.

Roman Polanski is “overwhelmed” by the support he has received since being arrested in Switzerland.

THE victim in the Roman Polanski child sex case has renewed calls for the case against the director to be dismissed and urged the media to leave her alone, court filings showed.

The woman sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski when she was a child is urging a court to dismiss the case against the film director, saying the media attention has made her ill.

Roman Polanski has been released from prison to receive medical care.

As it is, though, Hollywood apart, most Americans seem to think that Polanski must have what is coming to him and that those who call for bygones to be bygones fail to understand that the law is bigger than any of thosewho break it.

Whoopi Goldberg has defended Roman Polanski, saying he did not commit “rape-rape”.

A DEFIANT Roman Polanski yesterday vowed to fight US attempts to extradite him from a Swiss jail cell to be sentenced for having sex with an underage girl 32 years ago.

The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated today as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail.

An international row was brewing today over the arrest of film director Roman Polanski as artists and politicians leapt to his defence.

FILM director Roman Polanski was arrested on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a girl aged 13, Swiss police confirmed.

Film director Roman Polanski was arrested on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss police confirmed today.

A judge dismissed Roman Polanski’s bid to throw out a decades-old sex case because the fugitive director failed to appear in court to press his request.