The wife of former Top Gun pilot Daniel Duggan has made a passionate plea for him to be released as his extradition hearing is delayed until next year.
Saffrine Duggan gathered with her children outside the Sydney Downing Centre courts to protest the “extreme act of violence and cruelty against my family”.
Daniel Edmund Duggan has been in custody since October 21, 2022 after the US indicated it would seek his extradition for charges of conspiracy, arms trafficking and money laundering. Since then he has been held in mainly solitary confinement with limited opportunity to exercise and just one hourly visit permitted from his family each week.Mr Duggan’s family say he is the innocent victim of a political war between the US and China. Photo by: NCA NewsWire / Gaye GerardHe moved to Australia in 2002 and relinquished his US citizenship in 2012.
“Dan continues to be in maximum security,” defence lawyer Daniel Beralis told Sky News outside court on Monday.