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The wife of a former US military pilot and Australian citizen arrested one year ago on charges of training Chinese airmen has called for the Albanese government to release him.
Daniel Edmund Duggan, 55, was arrested on October 21, 2022, in regional New South Wales after the US government accused him of arms trafficking by providing military training to Chinese pilots in South Africa between 2010 and 2012.
He is also accused of money laundering while a US citizen.
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The father of six denies all the charges.
Duggan's wife Saffrine today called on the government to set her husband free ahead of a court hearing on Monday in which his legal team will press for his extradition hearing, set for November 24, be vacated.
She urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise her husband's detention when he meets US President Joe Biden in Washington DC next week for talks.
"We demand they reject the advice of faceless departmental bureaucrats in Canberra," she said.
"We demand they stop them from hiding important information that is vital to Dan's liberty.
"We demand transparency and an end to the secrecy and deception that has marred this case from the beginning.
"And we ask that the prime minister deliver a message on his visit to the US, a message that he will not support the extradition of Dan Duggan.
"A message that Dan is being returned to his family where he belongs as an Australian citizen."
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Duggan was provisionally arrested in a supermarket carpark by police in the NSW regional town of Orange and has been held in Lithgow Correctional Centre.
Twelve months on from his arrest, he remains in solitary confinement, with limited time out of his cell and a one-hour visit with family on Sundays.
Duggan's solicitor Dennis Miralis said it was a "long-standing concern" that thousands of documents, requested as necessary to his case, have not been produced by government agencies.
"That material is crucial to Dan's right to defend himself and crucial to the argument set down that seeks to raise his defence in extradition hearing," he said.
"If this material is not going to be produced in the first instance, it's not possible to rely upon this material at a later point in time.
"So, this material is of paramount importance."
– Reported with AAP
