Free Dan Duggan
Update
29 Jan 2026
When the courts resume next week, the Duggans are hoping for some good news soon about Dan’s Federal Court challenge, so he can finally return to his family.
But court appearances are costly, and the Duggans need your help to fund the great legal team that represents him in court. With legal aid refused, the family have had to foot the bill themselves with the help from your generous donations.
It’s time for this cruel farce to end.
With no Australian charges, it is unfathomable that Dan – an Australian citizen with a big family - has had to spend more than 3 years in maximum-security prisons, including 19 months in solitary confinement. #EnoughisEough
Please help the family fight for Dan’s freedom by donating: https://www.mycause.com.au/page/350423/free-dan-duggan
Update
19 Jan 2026
Dan Duggan moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2012 with an Australia Day citizenship ceremony. With Australia Day coming up, we are thinking of our Aussie citizen sitting in Macquarie prison. Abandoned by his own government, of the country he so proudly committed himself to.
Please, if you can, donate to help this family get through the impending Federal Court’s decision next month: https://freedanduggan.org/help-the-cause/
There have been no Australian charges laid against Dan. He’s had no legal aid offered to during this circus over the last 3 years. Why is this innocent Australian father left sitting behind bars?
Australia is the land of opportunity. People come from all corners of the globe to our sunny shores to live out the great Aussie dream. Dan, his Australian wife and 6 Aussie kid’s Australian dream has been shattered.
The last 3 years have been a nightmarish struggle. Two sets of lawyer fees, travel costs for Saff and the kids to and from prison and court, other unseen outside costs, and all the while Saff tries to support the family on a single part time wage.
Dan’s treatment has been nothing short of abhorrent. It’s time for Dan to come home and for the family’s suffering to end.
Update
06 Jan 2026
Happy New Year to all our supporters and friends. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas period. It was not so wonderful for the Duggans, as it was the 4th Christmas and New Years that they had to celebrate without Dan. And it was the 4th Christmas Dan had to spend behind bars.
This time of year is especially hard for a lot of families, financially and mentally, and the Duggans are no exception. Please if you can, help this family through this difficult time: https://freedanduggan.org/help-the-cause/
The Duggans continue to wait to hear about the Federal Court decision, as sitting dates do not begin again until February.
The family still owe for lawyers and legal experts, and never have been offered legal aid. When the judge makes a decision the Duggans will again need to pay lawyers to appear for Dan. They are relying on donations to fund his appeal against unsubstantiated and political motivated allegations by the United States, whilst the Attorney-General is using taxpayer funds.
Please donate if you can, or continue writing to politicians in Canberra.
Update
22 Dec 2025
It’s not the most wonderful time of the year for the Duggans. Dan is still sitting in Macquarie prison. The fourth Christmas without his loving wife and six beautiful kids. Separated, despite having broken no Australian laws. Abandoned and alone on Christmas, by his own government.
Please help this poor family through an especially sad time of year by donating here: https://www.mycause.com.au/page/350423/free-dan-duggan?menu=open
For the fourth year in a row, the Duggans are struggling to make ends meet on a single income and all the while maintaining a brave face for the kids to keep their spirits up.
The family would like to thank everyone who have supported them throughout this year. The donations, the kind words, letters to the AG’s office and various other ministers, engagement on social media, showing up in Canberra for the hearing. Without your help and generosity, Saffrine and the kids wouldn’t know where they would be. It means the world to them to know that people are behind them. Thank you.
Update
11 Dec 2025
The Duggans are in over $1 million in debt, after fighting for 3 years for justice and Dan’s release.
Please help this family in anyway you can, by donating here: https://freedanduggan.org/help-the-cause/
They need all the help they can get, especially at this-what should be, wonderful time of year. But for the Duggans it’s just a painful reminder that Dan is still not home and facing potentially another Christmas separated from each other.
Saffrine appeared on 10News on Sunday night. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVLLSwi6nM
“I’ve never been challenged as much in my whole life as I have been the last 3 years. I find it hard to think about the emotions that I sit in, because it’s too heartbreaking, it’s too painful. But it’s hard, its hard, and I don’t want to have to drag myself up every morning. So, I really hope this nightmare will end soon.” -Saffrine Duggan.
Saffrine has been incredibly strong throughout this whole ordeal. Raising 6 kids, working part time, keeping the family going, taking the kids to visits with Dan and managing phone calls, looking after her father, all the while trying to keep a brave face for the kids.
Enough is enough, time to let Dan come home. Don’t let these kids have their 4th Christmas without their father.
Update
04 Nov 2025
Last week supporter voices made a big difference - to the lives of the Duggan family and #FreeDanDuggan himself.
Your efforts pushing back and writing to authorities about plans to move Dan to yet another prison paid off.
After hearing your arguments, authorities have told the family the decision has been reversed. The orders came from high up the chain, after so many of you wrote letters of support and demanded action.
Dan is staying at Macquarie and will be working in the kitchen.
Thank you so much. This is much better for the family and for Dan.
The Duggans continue to fight for justice and win Dan’s freedom. Please make a donation here: https://freedanduggan.org/
Update
09 Oct 2025
Today marks one week until Dan faces his battle in the Federal Court in Canberra, to overturn his extradition. It has been an agonising three years of him being locked in maximum-security and separated from his loving family.
We urgently need to raise $22,000 before the court date for the barrister. Please if you can, help this family by donating to their legal fund here: https://chuffed.org/project/109154-dan-duggan-extradition-legal-fund
Dan is innocent. A pawn in an ideological war between the US and China. It is time Dan came home to his family and loved ones.
We desperately hope that Dan will be free to come home to his family who miss him beyond comprehension. The Attorney-General and our government have so far abandoned this Aussie family.
Update
05 Sep 2025
How much does it cost you to make a phone call these days? Did you know it costs the Duggan’s $2.50 for every phone call that Dan calls his wife Saffrine or his six kids from prison? And his calls are monitored and restricted to 10 minutes each.
That adds up to more than $400 a month for the family to stay in contact with their Aussie Dad and husband – despite being held with no Australian charges for 1,050 days today. It’s another constant stream of bills and additional hidden costs that most people don’t realise. Please if you can, help this family by donating: https://chuffed.org/project/109154-dan-duggan-extradition-legal-fund
This week, the Guardian wrote about the outrageous cost of phone calls in NSW correctional facilities, arguing that call costs risk isolating inmates from their families. Read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/prion-phone-call-costs-made-it-hard-for-chris-to-stay-connected-to-his-family-advocates-say-they-should-be-free-ntwnfb#:~:text=In%20NSW%2C%20each%20inmate%20is,call%20from%2025c%20to%20%242.59.
Update
29 Aug 2025
Please help: Seized home break-in nightmare
Thieves have broken into the seized property owned by Saffrine Duggan causing major damage, both to the home but also to this already shaken family. Especially, to the youngest members of the Duggan family.
The US's DOJ with the help of the AFP, seized this property when Saffrine tried to sell it hoping to fund the Federal Court challenge. If you can, please help this family by donating to the fund, as it would be a huge weight off everyone's shoulders: https://freedanduggan.org/help-the-cause/
This latest blow to a family going through enough trauma as it is, has impacted the children significantly. The youngest is now scared and living in fear after learning about this recent break-in. The kids are being constantly dragged into this nightmare, which isn't it enough that they have to live without their father, their protector? Children should be allowed to have a childhood. This ordeal will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
The US Government seized control of the property but bills, security and upkeep is still Saffrine's responsibility. This on top of no legal aid, two sets of lawyers bills, living on one part time wage; when will this nightmare end?
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This is an absolute disgrace and the silence and the apparent lack of action from our political leaders is not forgivable. We are not another state of America.
This is an absolute disgrace and the silence and the apparent lack of action from our political leaders is not forgivable. We are not another state of America.
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