Members of the Human Rights Forum (HRF) condoled the death of civil rights activist M. T Khan, who was affectionately called Khan Saab. He passed away in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
A poet, journalist and writer, Khan Saab had been actively associated with the human rights movement for several decades. He was close to all democratic, secular and progressive movements, said HRF president S. Jeevan Kumar.
As part of a human rights fact-finding exercise, he had, along with the late K. Balagopal, also visited Jammu and Kashmir in the mid-1990s and subsequently spoken out against the Indian government’s “repressive measures” in that State, said HRF general secretary V.S. Krishna.
