Daniel Duggan: wife of Australian pilot accused of breaking US arms controls lodges complaint with UN over ‘inhumane’ conditions

Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified and causing severe psychological distress, wife says

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The Australian pilot Daniel Duggan’s conditions of detention are “extreme” and “inhumane”, a clinical psychologist has said, while his wife says his 128 days of isolated incarceration have left him “a shadow of himself”.

Saffrine Duggan has lodged a complaint with the United Nations human rights committee, arguing her husband’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified and causing him severe psychological distress.

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