{"id":31815,"date":"2019-02-05T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31815"},"modified":"2019-02-05T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:22:18","slug":"will-thailand-deport-a-refugee-footballer-to-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31815","title":{"rendered":"Will Thailand deport a refugee footballer to Bahrain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79\">\n<p>Hakeem al-Araibi, a refugee living in Australia, fears he&#8217;ll be tortured if he&#8217;s deported from Thailand to his native Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p><span>Despite international appeals to free the 25-year old, a court in Bangkok denied bail on Monday and adjourned the case until April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>He spent more than two months jailed in Thailand after being arrested at Bangkok&#8217;s airport by\u00a0<\/span><span>Thai police acting on an Interpol red notice issued by Bahrain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Araibi is being compared to a young Saudi woman who faced a similar dilemma in Thailand last month.<\/p>\n<p><span>How should the case be handled?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Martine Dennis<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Phil Robertson<\/strong> &#8211; deputy director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Craig Foster<\/strong> &#8211; former Australian football captain leading the campaign for Araibi&#8217;s release<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Maryam al-Khawaja<\/strong> &#8211; acting president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakeem al-Araibi, a refugee living in Australia, fears he&#8217;ll be tortured if he&#8217;s deported from Thailand to his native Bahrain. Despite international appeals to free the 25-year old, a court in Bangkok denied bail on Monday and adjourned the case until April. He spent more than two months jailed in Thailand after being arrested at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}