Hakeem Al Araibi is a refugee, he was granted refugee status in Australia due to political persecution for speaking out against the Bahraini government.
He’s a football player, plays for Pascoe Vale in the Vic NPL and for the last 50-odd days he’s been in a Thai jail, he was arrested when he arrived in Thailand to start his honeymoon based on an illegally issued Interpol ‘Red Notice’ from Bahrain.
Thai authorities should have ignored the red notice due to his refugee status, but they picked him up, something they seem to have a habit of doing.
Below is a link to a petition by Amnesty International, please sign and share on your social media.
Signed. Thanks to Hybrid for linking this in the Squires thread and to Jubal for linking it here, of course. Hopefully we can reach the target, though we’re not too far off now.
This isn’t something I thought I’d find myself typing but I’ve been impressed as fuck with Craig Foster, the amount of time, effort and energy he’s putting into getting this bloke released is amazing and for me, shows him in a new light.
I’ve always found him a bit off-putting, arrogant and not as well-informed as he thinks, but I have to take my hat off to him.
I was thinking this exact thing only early in the week. I have always found Foster to be irritating, full of self importance and somewhat of a blowhard.
But you really have to take your hat off to the guy - he is going well beyond that of a football ‘personality’ and has really been an amazing advocate.
bit dodgy though, they sent a memo out announcing the camp was going ahead on the 3rd Feb.
interesting that WSW haven’t said anything about their sponsorship with Thai Airways, I wonder how well its going with them holding up the SAVEHAKEEM sign on the weekend.