A Thai court ruled Tuesday that a soccer player who holds refugee status in Australia can be held for 60 days pending the completion of an extradition request by Bahrain, the homeland he fled four years ago on account of alleged political persecution and torture.

Activists overseas staged a protest in front of the Thai embassy in Australia demanding the authorities in Bangkok to allow Bahraini football player Hakeem Al-Araibi return to his residence in Australia, where he has been granted asylum.

Thai authorities ordered the arrest of Bahraini football player for 12 days pending local court's decision. The court will decide within this period whether to release Al-Araibi or send him back to Bahrain, news indicated.

Activists overseas launched an appeal to address local MPs in Australia within the framework of a campaign to hinder the deportation of a Bahraini refugee residing in Australia, Hakeem Al-Araibi, from Thailand to Bahrain.

News indicated on Monday (December 3, 2018) that Bahraini football player Hakeem Al-Araibi was transferred to unknown destination in Thailand after he was arrested in a place affiliated with the immigration ministry since about a week.

Five Bahraini human rights organizations expressed their deep concern at the information they received about the intention of the German authorities to deport Bahraini citizen Ahmad Nawwar from their territories to Bahrain after examining his asylum application and protection.

The German authorities are to extradite Bahraini citizen to his country following 3 years of residency.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that the Bahraini authorities have deported eight stateless Bahrainis, whom they had previously stripped of their citizenship, over charge of “damaging state security.”

Bahrain has deported eight people to Iraq after they were convicted of damaging state security and stripped of citizenship, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday.

Bahrain has deported eight people to war-torn Iraq after revoking their citizenship and making them stateless, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, accusing the Gulf monarchy of exiling dissidents.

The Bahraini authorities expelled on Thursday (February 1, 2018) 4 citizens, increasing the number of expelled citizens to 8 within the 4 past days.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition political society in Bahrain, said the regime is practicing “forced displacement of indigenous Bahrainis by revoking their nationalities and then demanding that they leave Bahrain since they are rendered stateless.”

Amnesty International condemned Bahrain’s expelling of number of citizens, calling to halt all planned expulsions and allow those it has already expelled to return to the country.

The Bahraini security authorities forcibly deported citizens Adnan Ahmad and Habib Darwish to the Republic of Iraq on Tuesday morning (January 30, 2018), after stripping them of their nationalities.

The Bahraini security authorities deported brothers Ibrahim and Ismail Darwish to the Republic of Iraq on Monday morning (January 29, 2018).