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Three months after languishing at an undisclosed detention centre in Saudi Arabia where he was held incommunicado for a Facebook post on late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Amjad Ali Bhat, 29, from J&K\u2019s Baramulla has finally returned home. Amjad\u2019s disappearance in Saudi Arabia and his worried family\u2019s SOS to authorities of both countries were widely covered by TOI.Sharing his ordeal, Amjad, who returned Friday, said: \u201cI was at my workplace in Dammam March 25, when at least six security officers, one in uniform, took me for questioning, which they said would take two hours. I complied. They took me to a police station. There, they confiscated my passport and other IDs before asking me to sign an acknowledgement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There, Amjad was asked about his March 5 FB post, to which he replied in the affirmative. \u201cI said it was a condolence post, nothing more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The officers then drove Amjad to a detention centre where he was confined with six others in a small room. \u201cWhen I asked them about the charges, they only responded that I\u2019ll get to know later,\u201d Amjad said. There were people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and Syria held at the centre as well.\u201cQuestioning sessions continued almost every other day. I had doubts whether I would ever be released. I wasn\u2019t even allowed to speak to my family during my detention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Then came the moment which Amjad had been praying for. On June 25, he was told that he was being released, and sent to India. \u201cI broke down in relief. The Saudi authorities had arranged a flight from Riyadh to Delhi and I finally reached Baramulla,\u201d Amjad said.Amjad\u2019s father, Ghulam Ali Bhat, a retired staffer at J&K handicrafts department, said: \u201cThe past three months were traumatic for us. Now that he is back, he has decided to find work in India and not go abroad again.\u201d<\/div>\n


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