Hyderabad, Sept. 17 -- An elderly mother from Hyderabad has sought the intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to secure the release and repatriation of her 35-year-old son, Mohammed Afroz, who has been detained in Saudi Arabia for nearly two years.

Afroz, a resident of Madina Nagar in Yakutpura, is being held at Al-Shumaisi Detention Centre in Jeddah, according to a letter his mother, Zaib Unnisa, submitted to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday, September 17.

Afroz travelled to Saudi Arabia in February 2014 for employment as a house driver. After working in the job for around four years, he left it and subsequently took up work as a delivery worker, according to the letter.

Speaking to Siasat.com, Afroz'...