Nine faces fresh calls to free Whittington

Supporters of jailed 60 Minutes "fixer" Adam Whittington will take their battle to get him released from a Lebanese jail to the front doors of the Nine Network's Sydney headquarters.

Whittington has been behind bars since April 6, when he was arrested for allegedly organising a botched child-snatch attempt in Beirut that also landed Brisbane mum Sally Faulkner and a 60 Minutes TV crew behind bars.

Friends and supporters of the dual Australian-British citizen are frustrated that Nine left him out of a reported $500,000 deal that secured the release of Ms Faulkner and the four crew members, including reporter Tara Brown.

They are planning to rally outside Nine's Sydney headquarters on Tuesday.

Organiser Susan Brown hopes the rally will encourage Nine boss Hugh Marks and head of news Darren Wicks to help Whittington, whose next bail hearing is due on Wednesday.

"We want him to have the same amount of support that the 60 Minutes crew did," Miss Brown told AAP.

"We hope Channel Nine will come to the party and write a cheque and our friend will be out on Wednesday."

Miss Brown said Whittington's father will be at the rally.

She said Whittington, whom she has known since high school, feels abandoned.

He was moved last Friday from a jail in Beirut to another prison about a two-and-a-half-hour drive away.

"He says that for the first time in his 40 years he feels ashamed to be an Australian," she said.

"It's not pleasant going to sleep every night knowing my friend is where he is."

A Nine spokeswoman said Whittington, who travelled to Lebanon on a UK passport, was being supported by British embassy officials in Lebanon and a local lawyer.

"We are still engaged with our legal representatives in Lebanon as our matters are still before the courts and we are working with the authorities through that process," she said.

There had been hopes Whittington would be freed on bail last Wednesday.

However, his lawyer Joe Karam said the process was "ongoing" and that the judge investigating the case was looking at new evidence.

Mr Karam provided AAP with two sets of documents that indicate Nine was a key driver of the child abduction plot, paying $115,000 to Whittington's company Child Abduction Recovery International for his services.

Nine has previously said it feels no obligation to help members of the Child Abduction Recovery International team.