| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hakeem Ali Mohammed Ali al-Araibi | ||
| Date of birth | 7 November 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Bahrain | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | St Albans Saints | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2012 | Al-Shabab | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2014 | Al-Shabab | ||
| 2015 | Green Gully | 13 | (1) |
| 2016 | Goulburn Valley Suns | 24 | (5) |
| 2017 | Preston Lions | 13 | (2) |
| 2018–2021 | Pascoe Vale | 31 | (3) |
| 2022– | St Albans Saints | 19 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Bahrain U23 | |||
| 2013 | Bahrain | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 November 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 February 2019 | |||
Hakeem Ali Mohammed Ali al-Araibi (Arabic: حكيم العريبي; born 7 November 1993) is a Bahraini footballer who plays for St Albans Saints. He played for local club Al-Shabab and in the Bahraini national team before he fled as a dissident and refugee when the team was in Qatar in January 2014. He has played for various teams in Victoria since 2015, and since 2022 has played for St Albans Saints in NPL Victoria. He also holds a permanent position as Community and Human Rights Advocate with Football Victoria. He became an Australian citizen in 2019.
In November 2018, he was arrested on arrival in Thailand for a vacation from Australia, on the basis of an Interpol "red notice" issued by Bahrain. He was held there pending deportation to Bahrain, which he opposed. There was a campaign urging Thailand not to extradite him until 11 February 2019, when the Thai Office of the Attorney-General dropped the extradition case against him at Bahrain's request. He was returned to Australia the next day and became an Australian citizen shortly afterwards. The story of the campaign to free al-Haraibi is told in the 2023 documentary film The Defenders, by filmmaker Matthew Bate.