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- Al-Araibi, a former member of Bahrain’s national football team, was detained and tortured following the 2011 Arab Spring protests there. He fled the country and reached Australia, where he was granted refugee status. He currently plays for the professional Pascoe Vale Football Club in Melbourne.
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Feb 12, 2019 · Refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi has arrived back in Australia after being detained for more than two months in a Bangkok prison.
Feb 12, 2019 · Hakeem Al-Araibi arrives in Melbourne. Source: Getty. Bahraini refugee and Australian permanent resident Hakeem Al-Araibi. returned home to Melbourne on Tuesday. , more than two months after he was arrested by Thai authorities.
- Hakeem's Hope
- Living with Fear
- A Fight For The Soul of Football
"I found hope from your eyes," Al-Araibi said as he looked at Craig Foster, the man who led the #SaveHakeem campaign that ultimately bought the footballer back to Australia. Al-Araibi met the former Socceroos captain and human rights activist, for the first time in the visitor area of a Thai prison. From behind a screen of glass and metal bars, al-...
"I think I will live the rest of my life with fear," al-Araibi said, recounting his experience of being tortured and assaulted on multiple occasions. "They beat me for like four, five hours. "That was before, when I wasn't talking against them…now I am talking against Sheikh Salman," he said. Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa is the president of...
The race against time to save al-Araibi from being extradited led to Foster knocking on the door of FIFA, the sporting world's biggest organisation – urging them to take a stand for the rights of the former Bahraini footballer. "One young man was brave enough to take on FIFA. "The beautiful thing about the film is that it demonstrates what sport is...
Hakeem Ali Mohammed Ali al-Araibi (Arabic: حكيم العريبي; born 7 November 1993) is a Bahraini footballer who plays for St Albans Saints. He played for local club Al-Shabab and in the Bahraini national team before he fled as a dissident and refugee when the team was in Qatar in January 2014.
Feb 11, 2019 · Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said refugee to Australia, footballer Hakeem al-Araibi has left prison and his “on his way to the airport” in Bangkok.
Oct 28, 2019 · Al-Araibi was part of the fraternity of football and he was in very serious trouble. Detained in Thailand, facing extradition to Bahrain, for a crime he didn't commit.
Jan 30, 2019 · He is currently detained in Thailand, the subject of an extradition request by Bahrain. His extradition to that country would breach his human rights against refoulement (the forcible return of...
