Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan, who is currently the Shadow Sports Minister, raised the case of Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi in the house of common's session on Monday (February 4, 2019).

Thai Foreign Minister Don Paramudvinai says Australia and Bahrain should hold talks to resolve the case by having him sent to a third country instead of extraditing him to Bahrain.

A Bahraini court sentenced Zakia Al-Barbouri to five years in prison on Wednesday (February 6, 2019), also revoking her citizenship in politically-motivated case.

Human Rights Watch said that when the Bahraini government claimed there would be no threat to Hakeem Al-Araibi's life if the refugee footballer were extradited to his home country - citing the integrity of the kingdom's judicial system - it would have been laughable were it not so tragic, adding that Bahrain is emboldened to take human rights abuse beyond its borders.

The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Wednesday he was troubled by a report that Saudi Arabia transferred weapons to extremist groups in Yemen and questioned whether Congress should consider more restrictions on weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition.

Thai prosecutors will oppose bail for a refugee football player detained in Bangkok and facing extradition to Bahrain, the office of the attorney general said Wednesday, citing flight risks.

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) said that the Arabic version of the bank's website is under construction.

Protesting against the ongoing detention of football player Hakeem Al-Araibi, the Football Federation Australia has cancelled a proposed trip to Thailand as the under 23 men's national team prepares for its AFC U23 Championship qualifiers in March.

Responding to the Thai government's statement asking Bahrain and Australia to find a "mutually agreeable solution" in the case of Hakeem Al-Araibi, Dr. Graham Thom, Refugee Coordinator for Amnesty International Australia, said: "The Thai Government are clearly taking steps to negate their part in Hakeem's detention and pass the buck for their culpability."

The First High Criminal Appeals Court uphold 5-year jail term against a suspect accused of putting fake bomb in Sheikh Zayed Street in A'ali.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi said that "Hakeem Al-Araibi represents all the youths of Bahrain, all our young people are creative and look forward to the future, whereas the regime works day and night to destroy them, sabotage their future and turn their bodies into canvases for torture, abuse and injustice."

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society launched its slogan, "We Continue with determination," in commemoration of the start of the movement that began on February 14, 2011.

he First High Appeals Court rejected, in absentia, the appeals of a youth accused of attempting to detonate a locally made bomb, and upheld the 7-year jail term against him.

The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press statement yesterday in which it said that Thailand had previously not been aware of Hakeem's case and does not have any prejudice against him.

Thailand defended on Wednesday its arrest of a Bahraini footballer with refugee status in Australia, saying officials only detained him because Australian authorities sent an Interpol "red notice" after he boarded a plane to Bangkok.

A refugee Bahraini footballer who was arrested in Thailand while on vacation from his new home in Australia could remain in jail until August while a court decides on an extradition request from Bahrain, a Thai official said on Wednesday.

The Minors Fund and Affairs department said that it finished handing 7.8 million BD to those who reached the age of maturity (21 years and above) in the period between January 1 2018 and January 24, 2019.

A dispute between Dubai and Kuwait appeared to have ended on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates' central bank authorized the release of $496 million which had been frozen at Dubai's state-owned Noor Bank since late 2017.

Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to "unaccountable militias accused of war crimes" in Yemen.

A U.N. special envoy told warring Yemenis on Tuesday that rapid implementation of a prisoner swap deal would help advance efforts at a political settlement of a nearly four-year-old war.