Fighting for Hakeem : how people power challenged two monarchies, a military junta and football's governing body FIFA .. and won

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Fighting for Hakeem : how people power challenged two monarchies, a military junta and football's governing body FIFA .. and won

Title remainder

how people power challenged two monarchies, a military junta and football's governing body FIFA .. and won

Statement of responsibility

Craig Foster with Alex Engel-Mallon

Title variation

Fighting for Hakeem

Creator

• Foster, Craig

Contributor

• Engel-Mallon, Alex

Author

• Engel-Mallon, Alex
• Foster, Craig

Subject

• Bahrain
• Communication in politics -- Technological innovations
• Communication in politics -- Technological innovations
• Extradition
• Extradition -- Thailand
• Human rights
• Human rights advocacy
• Human rights advocacy
• Political participation -- Technological innovations
• Political participation -- Technological innovations
• Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia
• Al-Araibi, Hakeem
• Refugees -- Australia
• Refugees -- Bahrain
• Refugees -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Soccer
• Soccer players
• Soccer players -- Australia
• Soccer players -- Bahrain
• Social action
• Social media -- Political aspects
• Social media -- Political aspects
• Thailand
• Refugees
• Athletes
• Australia

Language

eng

Summary

Football is the world game. It unites. At a grassroots level it creates communities and, in 2019, those communities helped save the life of one of its own. In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain's national football team when he was arrested for attacking a police station during the Arab Spring, despite television footage showing him playing soccer at the time of the alleged attack. After three months of torture and wrongful imprisonment, Hakeem was released. He fled the country and made his way to Australia, where he was granted refugee status. Hakeem made a life here and was playing for the suburban Pascoe Vale Football Club, in Melbourne. He thought he was safe. But, in November 2018, on a holiday to Thailand with his wife, Hakeem was again arrested. The Bahraini government wanted to extradite him to face a ten-year jail sentence, or worse. What happened next shows the best of what soccer can do, and the worst the governing body of FIFA brings. If it wasn't for the Australian soccer community and former Socceroo Craig Foster, Hakeem may never have been freed. This powerful memoir reveals how a local soccer legend fought tirelessly to help bring home a man he'd never met. From Pascoe Vale to Switzerland, Canberra to Thailand, Foster raised his voice and tens of thousands of Australians were galvanised to #FreeHakeem. Foster lobbied FIFA and the United Nations and worked with human rights organisations worldwide to enable Hakeem's safe return to his wife in Australia. Despite being from different backgrounds, religions and generations, Craig Foster and Hakeem al-Araibi are united forever through their love of the world game and their fight for freedom

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

• 796.33404
• 796.334092
• 325.210953650994

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent