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defence correspondent Andrew Greene

Former US pilot Daniel Duggan's 'degrading' Australian prison conditions raised with United Nations

Australian citizen and former US fighter pilot Daniel Duggan, right, with his family. (Supplied: Duggan family)

Lawyers for a former US fighter pilot are urging the United Nations to investigate the "degrading" treatment he's receiving in an Australian prison, with his wife saying he has become a "shadow" of his former self.

Daniel Duggan, a 54-year-old Australian citizen, was arrested in October by federal police in the New South Wales town of Orange, at the request of American authorities who accuse him of helping train the Chinese military to fly jet fighters.

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