‘Bahrain, please don’t follow me!’ Refugee soccer player granted Australian citizenship

A refugee soccer player who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Persian Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday. Hakeem al-Araibi, 25, left Bahrain in 2014 after he was accused of crimes committed during the Arab Spring protests of 2011, ...

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