Australian court hears challenge to U.S. request to extradite former Marine pilot Daniel Duggan over alleged arms law violations in South Africa.

Former U.S. Marine pilot Daniel Duggan, a naturalized Australian citizen, appeared in Canberra's Federal Court on October 16, 2025, to challenge extradition to the U.S. over allegations he trained Chinese pilots in South Africa between 2010 and 2012, violating U.S. arms laws. Duggan, arrested in 2022, denies the charges, arguing the conduct was not illegal under Australian law at the time and that the extradition request fails the dual criminality test. His legal team also contends he renounced U.S. citizenship in 2016, backdated to 2012, and that the pilots were not military. The court is assessing whether the extradition should proceed.