Overview

• Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen and former US Marine, has spent 1,000 days in a maximum-security prison in New South Wales while contesting extradition to the United States.
• The Federal Court will hear his appeal in August after former Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus authorised his transfer to US custody in December 2024.
• His wife, Saffrine Duggan, has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to lobby for his release on the grounds that the charges are politically driven.
• The charges originate from a 2017 sealed indictment accusing him of training Chinese military pilots in South Africa between 2010 and 2012, an offence punishable by up to 60 years in prison.
• He maintains that ASIO and the US Naval Central Intelligence Service were aware of his activities, but both agencies have declined to comment on the ongoing proceedings.