Roman Polanski Petition

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This poll is inspired by the thread "When is rape not a crime" and Hollywood petition to free Roman Polanski.

What petition would you sign and why?

 

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Is he still alive? I thought he was dead...

New call in Poland to extradite Roman Polanski to US
31 May 2016 -Poland's justice minister says he will appeal against a decision not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US for statutory rape.

Zbigniew Ziobro, who is also Poland's prosecutor general, said he would make the appeal in the Supreme Court. A judge rejected Polanski's extradition in October as "inadmissible". The Polish-born director, who lives in France, fled the US ahead of sentencing in 1978 after admitting having sex with a girl aged 13.

Roman Polanski at a press event in Katowice, Poland, 24 May 2016​

Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimar, described the ordeal of giving testimony against Polanski in an interview for the BBC's HARDTalk programme in 2013. Polanski has French and Polish citizenship. France does not extradite its own citizens but the director occasionally visits Poland, attending a press event in Katowice just last week. Swiss authorities turned down a US extradition warrant in 2010, after placing Polanski under house arrest for nine months.

New call in Poland to extradite Roman Polanski to US - BBC News