Refugee footballer needs help: lawyers

By Oliver Caffrey
Updated December 19 2018 - 2:51pm, first published 2:47pm
Football player Hakeem AlAraibi is facing deportation to Bahrain after being arrested in Bangkok.
Football player Hakeem AlAraibi is facing deportation to Bahrain after being arrested in Bangkok.

Lawyers for a Melbourne-based refugee being detained in Thailand are demanding Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton grant him emergency Australian citizenship.

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