and facing possible extradition to the United States said his client was wrongly classified as an “extreme high risk” prisoner, and he had asked the Attorney-General to release him.
The United States must lodge an extradition request for Duggan by Dec. 20 under a bilateral treaty, a Sydney court was told on Monday. The case was adjourned until Dec 16. “This is unprecedented to have an Australian citizen placed on the most strict inmate restrictions, akin with people who have been convicted of terrorist offences and multiple homicides, in circumstances where he has never been in trouble with police,” Mr Miralis told reporters outside court.
Reuters previously reported that Duggan moved from Australia to China in 2014 to work as an aviation consultant, and shared a Beijing address with Chinese businessman Su Bin, who was jailed in the US in 2016 in a high-profile hacking case involving the theft of US military aircraft designs.that is now under scrutiny by British authorities for training Chinese military pilots, Reuters reported.