FILE PHOTO: Refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi arrives at Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Australia, February 12, 2019. AAP Image/David Crossing via REUTERS/File Photo
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The honeymoon that Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi and his wife had hoped to have in Thailand late last year did not go according to plan.
As the 25-year-old, who has refugee status in Australia, got off a plane in Bangkok on Nov. 27, Thai immigration police were waiting to arrest him based on an Interpol "red notice" from Bahrain.
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