Bahrain issued Interpol Red Notice for Hakeem Al-Araibi, document reveals

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Bahrain issued Interpol Red Notice for Hakeem Al-Araibi, document reveals

 

 

 

Documents reveal that it was Bahrain that issued the Interpol Red Notice which led to the detention of refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi.

 

Earlier this week, officials in Thailand said Al-Araibi was arrested and detained at the request of Australia.

 

“We would not have become involved in the issue had we not received the Red Notice alert from the Australian Interpol and the subsequent formal request by Bahrain for his arrest and extradition”, read a statement issued on Wednesday from Thailand’s Foreign Ministry.

 

The accusation resulted in the Australian Embassy in Bangkok issuing a statement where it denied issuing the Interpol Red Notice against Hakeem.

 

“Due to misreporting on the matter, the Australian Government would like to clear up confusion regarding the Interpol Red Notice issued against Hakeem Alaraibi,” the statement read.

 

“Australia never issued a red notice against Mr Alaraibi.

 

“This red notice was issued by Bahrain on 8 November 2018, shortly before Mr Al-Araibi travelled to Bangkok”.

 

“The red notice should never have been issued because of Mr Al-Araibi’s status as a protected refugee. This was a breach of Interpol’s regulations”.

 

“The Australian Government was not initially aware of this, and in line with Interpol procedure notified Thailand of Mr Alaraibi travel”.

 

 

 

Now, a document sent to Thaivisa from former Australia and Crystal Palace midfielder Craig Foster, who has been leading the fight to free Mr Al-Araibi and has visited him while he is being held in Bangkok, reveals that the requesting country for the Interpol Red Notice was Bahrain.

 

Meanwhile, a head of a match this weekend, Goal.com reported that Western Sydney Wanderers have started their own unusual protest as a show of support for Mr Al-Araibi.

 

The A-League club removed Thai Airways sponsorship hoardings from around the stadium as the now global movement to free Mr Al-Araibi continues to grow.

 

 

 

Footballers Didier Drogba, Giorgio Chiellini, Jamie Vardy and Tim Cahill have all publicly shown support for Mr Al-Araibi.

 

In 2014 Mr Al-Araibi was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in jail for fire bombing a police station.

 

Al-Araibi says he is innocent and that he was tortured in Bahrain because of his political views.

 

Later in 2014 he fled to Australia where he was granted political asylum in 2017.

 

He plays football for Melbourne side Pascoe Vale.

 

He was detained by Thai authorities in Bangkok on 27 November 2018 when visiting the country for his honeymoon.

 

He has remained in custody in Thailand since his arrest and earlier this week was denied bail.

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-02-09

[BigBadGeordie]

Oh dear me, try explaning this one as a "misunderstanding"!

 

 

[seajae]

looks like Thailand has been caught out blatantly lying to cover up their stuff up, red notices cannot be issued against protected refugees so they used Australia as a scapegoat for their problem. Have to wonder who is getting benefits by doing this for bahrain and now that the truth is out if Thailand will rescind the arrest as it should never have happened, makes them out to be pretty pathetic and obviously doing bahrains dirty work knowingly against the international requirements

 

[Prissana Pescud]

Finally and belatedly, the truth is now out. For 10 weeks, illegally shackled and locked up by Thailand.

Time to let him get back to Australia

[Artisi]

Bahrain issued red note, solly we not know - not read angrit well, honest mistook name mut.  

[Artisi]

from the experience gained in this little screw up, maybe they can now proceed with red notice for Red Bull absconder - seeing the  only protection this little a/h has come in the form of brown envelopes.

[emptypockets]

In the bigger picture it's probably irrelevant who issued the red notice. Thailand complied with protocols.

Everybody would be applauding if he was a pedophile and not a footballer and alleged refugee.

[sammieuk1]

Sounds like a red bull in a china shop approach arrest everything first facts later if they haven't payed????

[sweatalot]

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

In the bigger picture it's probably irrelevant who issued the red notice. Thailand complied with protocols.

Everybody would be applauding if he was a pedophile and not a footballer and alleged refugee.

yes they are so innocent and so humane 

and why do they hold him in shackels?

why did they not let him free with a big excuse and a compensation after the red notice was withdrawn?

 

nice try to whitewash them 

 

and

... in the bigger picture they have no humanity, no respect for other humans and no heart and brain to change their attitude

[bowerboy]

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

In the bigger picture it's probably irrelevant who issued the red notice. Thailand complied with protocols.

Everybody would be applauding if he was a pedophile and not a footballer and alleged refugee.

What is relevant is that Thailand is now holding him in detention against international conventions.

 

The point is that they are legally and morally entitled to let him free. They have nothing to answer to Bahrain for doing so.

 

So just set him free. The details are clear now. They don’t even need to lose face (in a sane world anyway).

[Bluespunk]

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

In the bigger picture it's probably irrelevant who issued the red notice. Thailand complied with protocols.

Everybody would be applauding if he was a pedophile and not a footballer and alleged refugee.

He’s not an alleged refugee, he has refugee status in Australia.

 

Given, he was charged with a crime that occurred while he was on live tv playing in a match and has been tortured by his govt in the past, Australia correctly recognised he is a genuine refugee who has good reason to fear being returned to Bahrain. 

[Prissana Pescud]

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

from the experience gained in this little screw up, maybe they can now proceed with red notice for Red Bull absconder - seeing the  only protection this little a/h has come in the form of brown envelopes.

It is interesting that you mention red bull man. It took days to detain a Bahrain interpol notice.

How many years has it been for Thailand to ISSUE an interpol notice against small ball red bull man

[Prissana Pescud]

2 hours ago, bowerboy said:

What is relevant is that Thailand is now holding him in detention against international conventions.

 

The point is that they are legally and morally entitled to let him free. They have nothing to answer to Bahrain for doing so.

 

So just set him free. The details are clear now. They don’t even need to lose face (in a sane world anyway).

You forget the Thai uniform mentality. They look in a mirror and see face.

I went to Mega Home yesterday. In the furniture and mirror section was - preening themselves......? And 5 of them. (chuckling as I walked past)

[greeneking]

3 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said:

Finally and belatedly, the truth is now out. For 10 weeks, illegally shackled and locked up by Thailand.

Time to let him get back to Australia

better than dead, filled with concrete and thrown in the Mekong. People must understand their betters want to have their way.

Sad.

[Reigntax]

The Thai version of event stunk from the start.why would Australian authorities issue a red notice after he was granted refugee status.?

The Thai authorities arent even good liars when it was clear from the start that they had stuffed up. Their excuses weren't plausible, didn't make any sense except to their own uneducated, inabilities to produce a logical sequence of events.

[Prissana Pescud]

15 minutes ago, greeneking said:

better than dead, filled with concrete and thrown in the Mekong. People must understand their betters want to have their way.

Sad.

Please, what sort of condescending reply is that?

 "Their betters". 

The people holding him by the arms while he is is in shackles are not his betters.

He is an athlete.

They are police stooges.

Where do you get off saying they are his betters. Or the face saving authorities that want this problem that they created to go away.

It will be resolved when Thailand can wave the problem away without losing face. But they are no ones betters

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, emptypockets said:

In the bigger picture it's probably irrelevant who issued the red notice. Thailand complied with protocols.

Everybody would be applauding if he was a pedophile and not a footballer and alleged refugee.

 

The guy's not an "alleged refugee."  He has official political asylum status in Australia.....

 

Bahrain never should have been able to get a Red Notice issued thru Interpol. I can understand Bahrain wanting the guy. I can't understand Interpol accepting/issuing a Red Notice for a guy who has asylum status, apparently in violation of their own rules.

 

And likewise, why is Thailand arresting and jailing a guy who has legal asylum status and thus never should have been the subject of a Red Notice in the first place?

 

[Dexlowe]

Agree with all of the above sentiments - the sensible thing for Thailand to do now is to release Al-Araibi pronto, apologise and issue a diplomatic protest against Bahrain. 

 

Meanwhile, why haven't we heard from Mrs al-Araibi? She and her husband were in Thailand on their honeymoon, yet she is being kept out of the picture completely. Why? This is most unusual in such stories (remember the kerfuffle Viktor Bout's wife raised?).

 

Is this the one negative to the whole story? The distraught wife hidden from view because of Arab cultural customs? I, for one, would like to know as this is an important part of the overall scenario.

[chainarong]

Quite obviously Interpol needs to clean up its act in regards to its understanding of International law,  regarding refugees status.

[PatOngo]

8 hours ago, bowerboy said:

What is relevant is that Thailand is now holding him in detention against international conventions.

 

The point is that they are legally and morally entitled to let him free. They have nothing to answer to Bahrain for doing so.

 

So just set him free. The details are clear now. They don’t even need to lose face (in a sane world anyway).

Oh! Really?

[SammyT]

I notice the redneck brigade on here saying he must have been dangerous (because Aussie allegedly issued the notice), deserved to he locked up and was an ungrateful refugee for daring to go on holiday are mighty quiet about this new development.

[Odysseus123]

 Rednecks..Bogans..Bovver boys..the curse of the internet.Most of them spend a great deal of time at their local Social Security offices (UK,Australia and the US)demanding more benefits and explaining-in their own unique way-just as to why they cannot get a job in the last 10 years.

 

So Australia,in the face of the Thai pathological lying,has abandoned its diplomatic stance at last..

 

[Oziex1]

My guess is this is being driven from the Thai elites who may have some relationship with Bahrain, none of this makes sense so it's about someone's payday and the sycophants are babbling bs in the most unconvincing way.

[Odysseus123]

13 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

My guess is this is being driven from the Thai elites who may have some relationship with Bahrain, none of this makes sense so it's about someone's payday and the sycophants are babbling bs in the most unconvincing way.

True (I think)

 

They thought it would be a "lay down misere"

 

You would have thought that they would have run out of sycophants by now..

 

By the way..where is the "Big Jelly Bean"?

[khunJeroen]

Who cares. I dont. Let him go back to Australia and stay there for the rest of his life. Can we please move on.

[Oziex1]

Just now, khunJeroen said:

Who cares. I dont. Let him go back to Australia and stay there for the rest of his life. Can we please move on.

If you don't care about human rights, you are entitled to your opinion but please don't go public with your comment.

 

This man needs help from those who care about human rights as Thailand and Bahrain have a very poor record on respecting human rights.

 

 

 

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, Oziex1 said:

My guess is this is being driven from the Thai elites who may have some relationship with Bahrain, none of this makes sense so it's about someone's payday and the sycophants are babbling bs in the most unconvincing way.

And who exactly are these Thai elites you refer to?

[Oziex1]

Just now, scorecard said:

And who exactly are these Thai elites you refer to?

As you are an experienced TV poster do you really require an explanation.

[scorecard]

Yes, I would like to read your explanation of elites.

 

The term is used again and again and often as a mask, I wonder how others interpret the comment.

[khunJeroen]

Thailand never signed the UN refugee treaty so his refugee status everybody is referring to is as such technically irrelevant from a legal pov. 

 

I find it naive he did not consider this when travelling. He should know as Bahraini his country would wait for its chance to arrest him. I don't say I approve, by now I actually don't know what is true or not anymore. That Thailand now follows its law is imo the most sensible thing to do.

 

UEFA is a hypocrite, indirectly finger pointing at Bahrain while organizing the world cup in Qatar.