Gdansk, Poland: The Polish government said it would revive an effort to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski, whom US authorities have wanted for decades. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to Europe the next year, on the eve of his sentencing.

The announcement is the latest twist in a long-running legal battle that, at least in Poland, seemed to have ended.

French-Polish film director Roman Polanski in Krakow last year. Credit:Getty Images

On October 30, a judge in Krakow, Poland, ruled that turning over Polanski would be an "obviously unlawful" deprivation of liberty and that the state of California was unlikely to provide humane conditions of confinement for the filmmaker, who is 82. The next month, the Krakow prosecutor's office said it would abide by the judge's ruling.