Wikipedia Locks Polanski page over child sex controversy

October 19th, 2009 LONDON - Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been granted leave from the Swiss jail where he was detained on a US warrant to get medical treatment. The Rosemary's Baby director had fled to France in 1978 as he was about to be sentenced for having illegal intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

October 17th, 2009 Lawyer says Polanski undergoing medical testsPARIS — One of Roman Polanski's lawyers says the jailed filmmaker is undergoing medical tests, though his current condition "is not of exceptional gravity." Herve Temime told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that after Saturday's tests Polanski would return to the Swiss prison where he is being held on a U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

October 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Incarcerated filmmaker Roman Polanski is completing his latest movie The Ghost in jail, his friend Robert Harris has revealed. The 76-year-old has been behind bars in Zurich, Switzerland since 26 September (09), when he was detained in connection to a 1977 child sex crime.

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - Troubled filmmaker Roman Polanski is 'tired and depressed' in jail as he battles extradition to the US, his lawyer has said. The Rosemary's Baby director has been in a Zurich jail since his arrest on September 26, when he was taken into custody on a US warrant for having unlawful intercourse with a minor in the late 70s.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Arrested Roman Polanski has been awarded a star on a Walk of Fame in Poland. The Rosemary's Baby director is currently under arrest in Zurich, Switzerland, on a US warrant for having unlawful sex with a teenaged girl in the late 1970s.

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that Roman Polanski should not get any special privileges because of his contribution to cinema and must be "treated like everyone else". Polanski is presently under arrest in Zurich on a US warrant for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A Los Angeles County district attorney has said that Roman Polanski is not being 'persecuted' but the case has to be wrapped up legally. The L A County district attorney Steve Cooley was quoted by the Daily Express as saying: "I don't persecute anybody and it's a matter of court processes being concluded....

September 30th, 2009 Festival says director Polanski in Swiss custodyZURICH — Director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody by Swiss police on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant, organizers of the Zurich Film Festival said Sunday.

September 30th, 2009 Lawyer: Polanski to seek release from Swiss prisonZURICH — A lawyer representing imprisoned director Roman Polanski says his legal team will file a motion Tuesday seeking his release from a Swiss prison. Herve Temime told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Polanski's representatives had hoped to hand in all necessary documents to Swiss authorities on Monday.

September 30th, 2009 Lawyer: Polanski will fight extradition to the USZURICH — The French lawyer for Roman Polanski says the director will fight a request for his extradition from Switzerland to the United States to face justice in a 32-year-old sex case. Herve Temime says Polanski has "refused the extradition request" and that a Swiss lawyer for the 76-year-old director will file a motion for his release from Swiss custody.

September 30th, 2009 Peter Fonda: Authorities wasting time on PolanskiZURICH — Actor Peter Fonda says international authorities had better things to focus on than catching Roman Polanski. Fonda told local radio Wednesday that "we should have been celebrating the arrest of Osama bin Laden and not the arrest of Polanski." The 69-year-old star of "Easy Rider" was in Zurich for a film festival.

September 30th, 2009 Tate's sister: Polanski won't get fair US trialNEW YORK — Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States. Tate told NBC's "Today" show Wednesday that the U.S.

September 30th, 2009 Swiss justice official: Bail for Polanski possibleZURICH — The Swiss Justice Ministry says Roman Polanski could be released on bail under very strict conditions that he doesn't flee Switzerland. Spokesman Guido Balmer says such an arrangement is "not entirely excluded" under Swiss law and that Polanski can file a motion seeking his release on bail.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Roman Polanski's rape victim has repeatedly requested the authorities to withdraw the charges against the director. The 76-year-old filmmaker has already confessed to having had sex with Samantha Geimer during a photoshoot for a fashion magazine in 1977, when she was just 13.

June 24th, 2009 Author acknowledges lifting Wiki materialNEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken for using passages — without attribution — that closely resembled material from Wikipedia and other sources included in his latest release, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected," Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote on his blog Wednesday.