Rafiq Tagi prominent North Azerbaijani writer stabbed in Baku‎
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 550 days ago | Sunday, 20th November , 2011 , 21:16 [pm] | Azerbaijan
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. | Azerbaijan’s authorities have launched criminal proceedings into the attack against prominent writer and journalist Rafiq Tagi.
Tagi remained in the hospital after being knifed on his way home late on November 19 in Baku. |
Azerbaijan’s authorities have launched criminal proceedings into the attack against prominent writer and journalist Rafiq Tagi.
Tagi remained in the hospital after being knifed on his way home late on November 19 in Baku.
The writer’s wife and son testified at the police. Tagi’s relatives said he had at least five knife wounds to his back and neck, while a doctor said there were six stab wounds.
Following four hours of surgery, a doctor at the hospital was quoted as saying Tagi’s injuries were no longer life-threatening. He has two broken ribs and his spleen was removed.
In 2007, a district court in Baku sentenced Tagi to three years in jail for an article printed in 2006 that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
The editor in chief of the “Sanat” newspaper in which the article appeared, Samir Sadagatoglu, was also sentenced to four years in prison. Both were released by presidental pardon later that year.
The article also prompted an Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, to place a fatwa on Tagi, calling for his death.rferl
, Voice of a Nation[1] Print
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