#SHOWBIZ: Yassin: All sorts of feelings were playing in my mind
Yassin, who had departed from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at 10.30am (3pm Malaysian time), said that the emotions he experienced during the flight were indescribable.
"When I was first held in lockup, on the second and third days, I truly felt like I would never return to Malaysia.
"Even one day felt like a month, two days felt like two months, and so on. But now, a day feels too short. It feels like only yesterday I went through everything," he said in an exclusive interview with Harian Metro.
Yassin, who was detained for six months at the Foreign Nationals Administration and Deportation Centre in Jeddah, initially had no idea how long he would be held there.
"I didn't know how long—a year, two, three, or four years? All sorts of feelings raced through my mind at the time," he explained.
"So, even when I boarded the plane, I was still sweating. I kept thinking, 'Am I really out?'
"When I arrived at KLIA and stepped onto the mainland, my feelings were truly a mix of emotions."
Continuing his story, Yassin recounted that he was initially placed in a severely overcrowded temporary lockup.
"The temporary lockup was an open area where anyone who had just been arrested, whether Arab or foreign, was mixed together," he said.
"I was there for eight days, waiting to see if anyone from the agency would come looking for me.
They didn't even know where I was; I had just vanished without a trace, disappeared from the radar."
This led to significant worry for his wife, Farah Waheeda.
Yassin explained that he was unable to contact her, despite their usual constant communication.
"If I disappeared for even a day, she would search for me, let alone something like this.
"She would have to answer to people. So, I was hoping the mutawif agency would come and visit."
"On the ninth day, they still hadn't arrived, and I was transferred.
"By the twelfth day, I thought they had returned home. I knew they were back and assumed they wouldn't still be in Jeddah," he said.
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