<p class="quote"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Initially I thought it no more than mildly interesting in a world full of more interesting events when I read that Roman Polanski had been imprisoned in Switzerland prior to being extradited to the US on a 30-year-old charge of rape. But, increasingly, in the news, on Facebook, Twitter, the&#160;<em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">LRB</em>&#160;blog and in conversation, I&#8217;ve been reading the argument between those who think he should not have been arrested and those who think he should, even after all this time, be returned to the US for sentencing, although the woman concerned (Samantha Geimer &#8211; she has allowed her name to be published) has now said that she doesn&#8217;t want the matter pursued.</span></p> Jenny Diski | LRB polanski rape, jenny diski, london review of books, kundera, swiss government the-feed 0 2009-10-30T14:31:55-04:00 <p>The great rape debate rages on...</p> 4 6313 thinking-of-you-polanski 2009-10-30T14:32:19-04:00 true false false false false Thinking of you, Polanski 2009-10-30T14:32:19-04:00 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/jenny-diski/diary 84 0