Ex-Mediacorp DJ Yanwei was detained in Dubai Mall for taking selfies; security claimed that it’s “illegal”

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Ex-Mediacorp DJ Yanwei was detained in Dubai Mall for taking selfies; security claimed that it’s “illegal”
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The former YES 933 jock tells 8 Days about “the very bad experience”, adding that he doesn’t know “what other motives they have” for singling him out.

. He first took videos inside the mall with his mobile phone without any issues. It was when he stepped out that he decided to take videos with his point-and-shoot camera that things went wrong.

The guards insisted that he go to the management office with them to settle the issue, and on the way there, they reiterated several times that they were going to call the police. Yanwei ended up in the management office for about two hours, discussing the matter with the mall's management and the guards.

The incident took place on a Friday, and the management staff promised to follow up with Yanwei by Monday. “It’s been [over] a month, and there is still no reply,” he said.It’s been close to two months since the incident, and Yanwei is still unsure of why he was singled out among all the other selfie-taking tourists in the first place. “I don’t know what other motives they have. There are people who’ve DM-ed me and said that it could be racial, or that they actually wanted some money [from me].

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