After three years of battling drug charges, singer-composer Yasin breathed a sigh of relief when he escaped life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane after the Court of Appeal ruled in his favour on Monday (April 28).
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00:00After three years of battling drug charges, singer-composer Yasin breathed a sigh of relief
00:07when he escaped life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane after the Court of Appeal ruled in
00:14his favour on Monday. A three-judge panel allowed Yasin's final appeal and set aside the Shah Alam
00:21High Court's sentence. In delivering the unanimous decision, Justice Datuk Cheh Mohamed Ruzima
00:27Ghazali said the Court reinstated the ruling by the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court, which had
00:33previously acquitted and discharged him. The Court also restored the Sessions Court order
00:38that Yasin, whose real name is Mohamed Yasin Sulaiman, be admitted to Hospital Bahagya Ulu Kinta,
00:45Perak, for a period to be determined at the Sultan of Selangor's discretion. Yasin was arrested on
00:52March 24, 2022, for possessing over 193 grams of cannabis and cultivating 17 cannabis plants
01:01at a condominium in Kota Damansara. He was also accused of self-administering a dangerous drug.