Rafiq Tağı

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Rafiq Tağı (born August 5, 1950 in Xoşçobanlı, Azerbaijani SSR , Soviet Union as Rafiq Nəzir oğlu Tağıyev ; † November 23, 2011 in Baku ) was an Azerbaijani publicist, journalist and doctor. He worked for Sanat magazine until the police arrested him in 2007, along with Sanat's editor Samir Sadagatoglu, after they published the 2006 article "Europe and Us", which is said to have been critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad ; in connection with this he was accused of inciting religious hatred. On November 19, 2011, Tağı was stabbed six times by a stranger and died four days later from his injuries.

biography

Tağı was born in the village of Xoşçobanlı in southern Azerbaijan. He graduated from the Azerbaijan Medical University in Baku and worked as a doctor in rural areas of the country. He later received a diploma in cardiology from the First Moscow State Medical University IM Sechenov . From 1990 he worked in an emergency hospital in Baku.

In addition, Tağı was also active as an author. His membership in the Azerbaijani Writers' Union was suspended after 16 years after he wrote a critical essay on the Soviet-Azerbaijani poet Səməd Vurğun , in which he analyzed his social and political views.

Another article called “Europe and Us” ( Avropa və biz ), published in Sanat magazine in 2006, in which he claimed, among other things, that Islam and democracy are incompatible. This article provoked protests in Iran (in front of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran) and induced Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani to issue a fatwa against Tağı demanding his death. Lankarani accused Tağı of insulting the Prophet Mohammed and mocking Islam.

As a result of the article, Tağı was arrested, as was the magazine's editor, Samir Sadagatoglu, and sentenced to three and four years in prison, respectively. After all, Tağı and Sadagatoglu only spent eight months in prison.

Rafiq Tağı died on November 23, 2011 as a result of a knife attack by an unknown stranger who attacked him on the way home.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder Triggers Debate on Islam, Civil Rights, and Iran Zenith Online , December 6, 2011
  2. ↑ Рафик Таги скончался - Rafiq Tagi died ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on radioazadlyg.org (Russian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioazadlyg.org
  3. ↑ Iran issues fatwa on Azeri writer BBC News , November 29, 2006
  4. ^ Azerbaijani Court Sentences Two Journalists Radio Free Europe , May 4, 2007
  5. ^ Journalist critical of Islam dies four days after being stabbed by attacker reporters without borders , November 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Tağı, Rafiq
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tağıyev, Rafiq Nəzir oğlu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Azerbaijani publicist, journalist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Xoşçobanlı, Azerbaijani SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2011
Place of death Baku