[1] He is the son of late Mir Quasem Ali, a prominent leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, and was a member of his father's legal defence team before his abduction.
"[2] The same statement states that Mir Ahmad had been previously visited and questioned by several members of Rapid Action Battalion earlier on 5 August 2016.
[10][11] Two lawyers, Michael Polak and Toby Cadman, who had long advocated for his release through various campaigns, expressed their joy on receiving the news.
"[3] Human Rights Watch, in a report, claimed that Mir Ahmad was abducted by men who said that they were "members of the administration," without specifying which part of the security forces they belonged to.
[14] On Al-Jazeera's Head to Head programme broadcast on 1 March 2019, Mir Ahmad's lawyer Michael Polak asked a question on Mir Ahmad's abduction case to Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Advisor Mr Gowher Rizvi while the latter was being interviewed by show host Mehdi Hasan.
[16] David Bergman, in an investigative report written for The Wire, has claimed that Mir Ahmad may have been abducted on direct orders of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
[17] Mir Ahmad's case also made international headlines when Channel 4 news presenter Alex Thomson asked Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddique, the niece of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whether she would use her influence with the Bangladeshi government to help free Mir Ahmad in Bangladesh.