Fight to bring football refugee back to Oz

Australia's soccer community is calling on the federal government and the sport's peak body to prevent a player being extradited back to a country he fled.

Hakeem Al-Araibi

มีความเสี่ยงสูงที่ทางการไทยอาจส่งตัว นายฮาคีม อัล อาไรบี กลับไปยังบาห์เรนตามคำแจ้งเตือนสีแดงของตำรวจสากล (อินเตอร์โพล) Source: AAP

Supporters are demanding the Australian government and international soccer officials intervene to stop a Melbourne-based refugee being sent back to Bahrain.

Hakeem AlAraibi, a semi-professional player, flew from Melbourne to Thailand on holiday with his wife for the first time since fleeing his native country in 2014.

But he was arrested in Thailand over an incorrectly-issued Interpol Red Notice last month.

You can read the full articles in English at the following links below:  



Fight to bring football refugee back to Oz

'Hakeem is one of us': Footballers demand intervention for detained refugee

 



 

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