On Monday asked the Bahrain official to Thailand to extradite the 25-year-old arrested a man. He was arrested in Bangkok in november when he was on honeymoon, because of a faulty search warrant from Interpol, which was later withdrawn.
Hakeem al-Araibi says he fled Bahrain after having been tortured, and is afraid of being tortured again or killed if he is forced to return.
” I have not done anything in Bahrain, I have not done anything in ThaiIand, I have not done anything in Australia. How can they keep me locked up like this? Please, help me, please. In Bahrain there are no human rights and no security for people like me, ” he said to The Guardian last week.
Bahrain has been granted refugee status in Australia, where he lives for five years and plays for the semi Melbournelaget Pascoe Vale FC.
The former australian landslagskaptenen Craig Foster has led a campaign for Hakeem al-Araibis release, and he met with on Monday, the international football association Fifa in a meeting about the case.
” We are targeting a strong call to the authorities in Thailand and Bahrain to do the right thing and ensure that mr al-Araibi, in bond; can return to Australia immediately, said the Fifa secretary general, Fatma Samoura.
the olympic committee, the IOC, has endorsed the requirements that al-Araibi be allowed to return to Australia.
On Monday also commented for the first time, Asia’s football federation, AFC, to support for al-Araibi. President of the federation Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa, a member of the Bahraini royal family. He has officially been removed from the case because of a conflict of interest.
When Shaikh Salman was a candidate in the election for Fifa president in 2016, accused Hakeem al-Araibi him in the international media to discriminate against shias, and to have pursued the athletes who protested against the regime during the Arab spring of 2011.
Hakeem al-Araibi suspect that it is because of this that Bahrain would like to get him extradited and punish him.
“I’m so afraid of being sent back to Bahrain, so afraid for 100% sure they will torture me again, it is possible that they kill me,” he says to The Guardian.
2012 together with his brother. The two were accused of having ravaged a police station. After his release, while he was in Qatar on team assignments, he was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison for it. He says that while the vandalism, classified as a terrorist incident, alleged to have been, he played in a televised football match for his team Al Shabab.
He realized during the national team test that he could not return to Bahrain and went to Australia. He describes the three months of bahrainskt prison as a ”hell”.
– The first two days put the blindfold on me and hit me in the face and on the legs, and said that I would never be able to play football. In five hours in a row, beating the many police officers to me. They poured cold water over my face and my back. They did not even get out of me a recognition, and when asked them: ”what have I done?”, screaming they just ”keep quiet” and beat me more.
the government of Australia that the prime minister, Scott Morrison has written to his statement by thai counterpart in order to require that Hakeem al-Araibi get to go back to Australia.
at the same time, the Bahraini interior minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa in a statement to ”outside interference in Bahrain’s internal affairs is unacceptable”.
“Time is running out and I appeal desperately to you as a humanist and someone who would not hesitate to stand on the justice side, please, please, please help my husband,” writes Hakeem al-Araibis wife, who wishes to remain anonymous, on Tuesday in a letter in which she appeals to the prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau for help.
