Finally breaking months of silence, famed “Chinatown” director, Roman Polanski, released a statement Sunday criticizing Swiss and US authorities for attempting to extradite him on a 33-year-old child sex case.

In a statement published on an online magazine run by his friend and supporter, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, Polanski argued his case against returning to the US to be sentenced. “I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life…I only ask to be treated fairly like anyone else.”

Polanski has been under house arrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet since being arrested in September on charges of sexual abuse dating back to 1978. The director pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse and served 42 days in California state prison, but then fled the country the night before his final sentencing. He has continued making films overseas for the last 30 years, being careful only to travel to countries that don’t have an extradition agreement with the US.

Although a state court judge ruled earlier this year that Polanski must return to be sentenced and on April 22, Swiss authorities have yet to announce whether or not they will follow through on Polanski’s extradition.

“I can remain silent no longer because the request for my extradition addressed to the Swiss authorities is founded on a lie,” Polanski said in the statement. “I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago.”