Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made in finding the British-trained Barrister Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, following his disappearance in Bangladesh In 2016.

I am aware of the case of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem. It is alleged that Mr Quasem was abducted from his home in Bangladesh in August 2016, and that he remains missing. As Mr Quasem is not a British National we have not raised his specific case with the Bangladesh authorities. Ministers regularly raise our concerns about enforced disappearances and attacks on political freedoms with the Government of Bangladesh.

I did so just recently with the High Commissioner for Bangladesh and Foreign Secretary Haque on 2 November