Hakeem needs the support from as many clubs as possible! Bring him back home. #SaveHakeem

Thailand is set to send Australian resident and refugee Melbourne footballer Hakeem AlAraibi back to Bahrain, where he faces imprisonment and possible torture, a human rights group claims.

The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said on Friday morning AlAraibi would face a Thai court today and could be sent to the country he fled within hours.

“This might be my last message,” the Pascoe Vale FC defender was quoted as saying. "I still don’t know whether I will be deported to Bahrain tomorrow. I appeal to the United Nations, individual states, FIFA, footballers, and all people, as my fate is now in danger and my future will soon be over.

“If I am deported to Bahrain, don’t forget me, and if once I’m there you hear me saying things, don’t believe me. I know what will happen to me and I know I will be tortured to confess things that I have never done. Please continue your fight to save me.”

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