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Javaid told the embassy officials that during the police interrogation he was asked about his contacts with Imtiyaz, a seminary student in the Iranian city of Mashhad. As per Javaid's admission, he shared the number out of good faith, assuming that the person needs help with a job in Saudi Arabia. The embassy email further stated that someone named Imtiyaz had messaged Javaid on Facebook messenger asking for his WhatsApp number. On July 17, 2020, the family received an email from the Indian embassy in Riyadh, saying they had spoken to Javaid and that he was in jail for a "security-related matter". "But they said offices in Saudi Arabia were closed due to the pandemic and expressed their inability to help". "During this time, we approached India's foreign ministry as well as the Indian embassy in Riyadh," Sajjad said. He spoke to his mother and said he was well. "For one month, we heard nothing from him, we had absolutely no information about his whereabouts, his well-being," said Sajjad, who helps his father with walnut farming.Īlmost a month later, on April 14, the phone rang suddenly and it was Javaid himself. "On March 18, 2020, at around 12:30 pm local time in Saudi Arabia, he was arrested by the Saudi police," the elder brother said, adding that the family was informed about it by one of his colleagues the next morning. In early 2020, Javaid was planning to visit Kashmir to see his newborn daughter, Sajjad said, but the global outbreak of COVID-19 and the suspension of international flights forced him to shelve the plan. "In 2019, following the abrogation of Kashmir's special status and the subsequent suspension of mobile and internet services, we lost contact with him for several months, during which his daughter was born."
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"Everything was going well," Sajad told the Press TV over the phone. His next trip home came in April 2018, when he got married, followed by another visit in December that year. In 2016, he traveled back to Kashmir and spent a few months at home before heading back to the kingdom, covering a distance of around 5,000 km on both sides. Javaid went to Saudi Arabia in December 2014, then 29, after finding a job in Noodles International Trading Company, a Chinese-operated fast food chain in the kingdom, his brother said, adding that the purpose was to financially support his family, which belongs to the lower economic strata. His elder brother Sajad Hussain Mir, speaking exclusively to the Press TV, said the distraught family has been running from pillar to post to secure his release from Saudi captivity, but they have been turned away virtually everywhere. His arrest came shortly after he had shared his number, people close to him revealed to the Press TV. The father of a three-year-old girl, Javaid worked as a supervisor at a Chinese food chain in Dammam. Javaid Ahmad Mir, 37, has been languishing at a notorious detention facility in the kingdom's eastern city of Dammam since March 18, 2020, apparently for sending his WhatsApp number over Facebook to another user in Iran. The festivities of Eid have also turned gloomy amid the endless wait.

Since her young son was jailed in Saudi Arabia two years ago, the smile has vanished from the grief-stricken mother's wrinkled face. It was another melancholic Eid at the Mir household in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Sunday, with Sara Begum's gaze fixed on the door, anticipating a knock.
