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| Director Roman Polanski has lost an appeal to be released on bail from a Swiss jail ahead of his possible extradition to the US. | Director Roman Polanski has lost an appeal to be released on bail from a Swiss jail ahead of his possible extradition to the US. |
| Switzerland's highest criminal court backed an earlier government ruling that there was a high risk of Polanski fleeing the country if he was released. | Switzerland's highest criminal court backed an earlier government ruling that there was a high risk of Polanski fleeing the country if he was released. |
| He is being held in Switzerland over his 1977 US conviction for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. | |
| He fled the US in 1978 before he could be sentenced. | He fled the US in 1978 before he could be sentenced. |
| The court considered the risk that Roman Polanski might flee if released from custody as high Court statement | |
| "According to Swiss law, detention is the rule during the entire extradition proceedings," the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland said in a statement. | |
| "The court considered the risk that Roman Polanski might flee if released from custody as high." | |
| The court said Polanski - who was arrested on 26 September as he travelled from France to collect a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival - could now appeal against its verdict to Switzerland's highest tribunal. | |
| Polanski, who had originally been charged with six offences including rape and sodomy, pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with an under-age girl following a plea bargain. | |
| But he fled the US before sentencing and has not returned since. | |
| Speaking after Polanski's detention, US prosecutors disputed claims that his arrest came out of the blue, saying he had been on an Interpol "wanted list" for years. | |
| "The idea that we have known where he is and we could have gotten him anytime, that just isn't the case," US Marshals Service chief inspector Thomas Hession said. |