BANGKOK, Jan 11 (TNA) – Thai police host “Coffee Talk”
with foreign diplomats and international organizations’ representatives to
discuss crime prevention and handling extradition requests.
The Royal Thai Police’s Immigration Bureau held the first of
such meeting on Friday hoping to create contacts for exchanging information
between the law enforcement agency and foreign missions in Thailand.
Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpan said
his force aimed at enhance it coordination with international community.
Such coordination could be extended into facilitating
extradition of foreigners wanted by their home countries even without bilateral
extradition agreement, he said.
Pol Lt-General Surachet also updated on the fate Hakeem
al-Araibi, a Bahraini asylum seeker granted permanent residency in Australia,
who has been detained by Thai authorities last month on Interpol red notice.
He said the semi-professional footballer was due in court
next week for an extradition requested by Bahrain.
The Australian government has been in talks with Thai
authorities appealing for his safe return to Australia.
Al-Araibi has been detained in Thailand since November while
trying to go on vacation.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne who has paid a
visit to Thailand called on Thailand not to send al-Araibi back to Bahrain and
coordinated the case of Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun who has fled her
family and sought asylum in Australia.(TNA)
