Five  years fsince  the assassination of Rafik Tagi

On November 23  is makred  the 5th anniversary of the death of journalist Rafiq Tagi, who was fatally stabbed on  19 November, 2011 at his home, and died three days later in hospital. This murder is still unsolved and the perpetrators  have not been found. According to unofficial data, the writer was a victim of religious fanatics who threatened him for a long time. Calls to kill him appeared after the publication of the article "Europe and Us" in the newspaper in November 2006 "Sanat". Then Tagi and editor Samir Sadagatoglu were arrested and convicted for inciting hatred, because the article has been hailed as an insult to Muslims. Two weeks before his death Tags  published anti-Iranian article which sharply criticized the existing regime in Iran and Islamic structure of the state. After the assassination  the Iranian theologian Tagi Lankaran welcomed the killing of the  publitsist.-16D-

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