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- 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.
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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.
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- Taking The Fight to FIFA
Foster has always been driven, a fighter, single-minded, a man of indefatigable energy. His mother, Deanne, remembers him as a "strong character" as a child. "When he was playing soccer, you could hear his voice on the pitch the whole time, directing traffic," she says. Known as an outspoken and sometimes polarising broadcaster and football identit...
Al-Araibi and his wife had saved and planned for their honeymoon in Thailand. Very much in love, they had met online when he was 17 and talked endlessly on social media for several years before they met in person. When she came to visit him in Australia, it was the first time they had been alone together. They were married soon after. She has not b...
It was not an easy decision for Foster to visit al-Araibi in Bangkok. He had been critical of both Thailand and Bahrain on social media and, on three occasions, he says there had been unidentified people watching his house. "That was a moment of pause but we were so committed that it was never going to stop us," Foster says. When he visited Hakeem ...
Foster's friend and former colleague Brendan Schwab says Foster may never make it into Australia's football hall of fame, but his suit has a fair chance of getting there. By now he had lost so much weight his grey suit was the only outfit he had that still fitted him and he wore it every day for weeks. He was wearing it when he "gate-crashed" the o...
- Quentin Mcdermott
Feb 11, 2019 · Hakeem al-Araibi, who is a Bahraini citizen, fled to Australia in 2014 and was granted political asylum. He was detained in Bangkok in November on an Interpol notice requested by Bahrain.
Jun 22, 2023 · Hakeem Al-Araibi as he left Thailand's Criminal Court, in Bangkok in February 2019. Picture: Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images. After he was released on bail, while in Qatar playing for the national team, al-Araibi fled and routed through several countries before he sought asylum in Australia. He spoke out about what happened to him.
- Wenlei Ma
Jan 11, 2019 · Hakeem Al-Araibi, a professional footballer from Bahrain, currently finds himself at the centre of a diplomatic dispute involving three countries over a controversial extradition attempt.
Jan 30, 2019 · Hakeem Al-Araibi is a refugee from Bahrain who plays semi-professional soccer in Melbourne for Pascoe Vale. He is a former member of the Bahraini national football team. He is currently...
Jun 23, 2023 · Hakeem al-Araibi's story is testament to the adage "the power of one". This is how former Socceroos captain Craig Foster led a global campaign to free the fellow footballer who was wrongfully imprisoned overseas and exposed bureaucratic slip-ups that landed him there.
