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BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) – Hakim al-Ureybi of Bahrain, who has criticized international human rights organizations, will be released after Bahrain abruptly abandoned his extradition request, Thai authorities said on Monday. .
A Thai court has approved a request for a dismissal of the Ureybi extradition case, said the director general of the department of international affairs of the Thai prosecutor's office, adding that this decision would allow Oreibi to Be released as soon as possible.
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Meanwhile, the Bahraini Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that Ureybi's conviction was still in effect and that Bahrain "asserted its right to take all legal measures against it," reported the report. Official Bahrain News Agency (BNA).
The Thai authorities arrested Oreibi last November, where he was spending his honeymoon on the basis of an international arrest warrant from the Bahraini government.
Oreibi left Bahrain in 2014 to travel to Australia, where he got asylum and became a player in one of the local clubs.
The Bahraini authorities are accused of escaping the execution of his sentence after he was accused of participating in an attack on a police station, the player denying the charges.
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