After many sleepless nights, there is little time to rest for Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah even as she was just freed from detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

But looking at Maria, there is little trace of the fatigue of 10 days in solitary confinement.

Caressing the faces of her sons, the mother of three was above all, overjoyed.

"I'm speechless. We didn't know when she would come out, and suddenly we got the call that she's out. It's quite unbelievable," her eldest son Azumin, 22, said, as his mother rubbed his shoulder affectionately.