The lawyer for a former U.S. military pilot arrested in Australia 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.
Former U.S. Marines pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in New South Wales in October at the request of the U.S. government, the same week Britain announced a crackdown on its former military pilots working to train Chinese military fliers.
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 December 16.
