Former high gun Daniel Duggan has spent 19 months in a maximum-security jail earlier than at the moment’s listening to in a Sydney court docket on the US extradition order.
Requested by the Justice of the Peace if at the moment’s listening to can be contested, Walker informed the court docket: “Not likely, no.”
There was no argument to written materials offered by attorneys for the US, he added.
The Justice of the Peace ordered Duggan be held in custody to await extradition below a short lived give up warrant, an order he can enchantment for evaluate inside 15 days.
Reiss famous the place from Duggan’s attorneys had “streamlined the concerns considerably”.
The 55-year-old was arrested in Australia on the behest of the US after being accused of breaching arms trafficking legal guidelines by offering army coaching to Chinese language pilots in South Africa between 2010 and 2012, allegedly receiving about $100,000 for his providers.
Duggan’s spouse, youngsters and supporters gathered exterior Downing Centre Native Court docket earlier than the extradition listening to to name for his freedom.
“This deliberate torture has to cease at the moment,” Saffrine Duggan mentioned.
Her husband has been stored in a maximum-security jail in solitary confinement, getting ready his defence with handwritten notes, whereas her home has been seized and functions for Authorized Support had been rejected, she mentioned.
“They’ve completed all the pieces of their energy to make this tough for my household, to attempt to break Dan and to interrupt us, however we are going to battle it doesn’t matter what,” she mentioned.
Duggan blew kisses and made coronary heart gestures from the dock because the courtroom stuffed with supporters at the moment, a few of whom had been reminded about legal guidelines relating to contempt.
Some remained seated on the ground of the packed courtroom, whereas one man accused the Justice of the Peace of presiding over a “kangaroo court docket” earlier than leaving the room.
The ex-pilot and his household argue the fees are politically motivated given the deterioration of Sino-American relations and the way way back the alleged actions occurred.
An April court docket bid didn’t postpone the listening to after claims Duggan had racked up $800,000 in authorized payments and was unable to fund his future defence.
In a jail letter seen by AAP, Duggan mentioned he believed his actions had been lawful and that the Australian Safety Intelligence Organisation and the US Naval Central Intelligence Service knew of his work.
Ms Duggan has offered a petition with 25,000 signatures to politicians in Canberra, calling on Dreyfus to launch her husband and finish his extradition.
Greens Senator David Shoebridge mentioned he would desk the petition in parliament.
“Our authorities ought to present some guts, our authorities ought to make it clear that being an Australian citizen issues, and that when one other nation comes for you, they’re going to defend you as greatest they’ll … however we have seen none of that,” he mentioned.
Dreyfus has been contacted for remark.
