Emails show Border Force considered cancelling refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi's visa

Newly released emails reveal chain of bureaucratic bungles that could have further endangered al-Araibi

A trove of internal emails from within the home affairs department has revealed the Australian government considered cancelling the visa of refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi after his wrongful detention in Thailand last summer.

On Friday the ABC revealed how a series of bureaucratic bungles including a crucial email from Border Force to the Australian federal police that went unread for five days may have put al-Araibi at further risk during his 76-day incarceration.

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