Ongoing detention of accused former US marine an ‘affront to Australia’s rule of law’, wife says

Daniel Duggan – held since October – will fight extradition and says US charges he trained Chinese fighter pilots are politically motivated, court hears

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The wife of detained Australian citizen and former US Marines fighter pilot Daniel Duggan has described his ongoing incarceration – now at 115 days - as “inhumane” and an “affront to Australia’s rule of law”.

Saffrine Duggan will petition the United Nations human rights committee to intervene in her husband’s detention. He is confined to a 2x4m cell in Sydney’s Silverwater prison and classified as an “extreme high-risk restricted inmate” without justification, she says.

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