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On 23 November 2011, Rafīq Tağı mysteriously died while recovering from surgery in a hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan. The surgery was precipitated by seven stab wounds received a few days earlier, on 19 November 2011. After the initial treatment for his wounds and the removal of his spleen, Rafīq Tağı declared from his hospital bed that he had been attacked by two individuals who did not utter a single word while knifing him. The sixty-one-year-old Azerbaijani journalist and literary critic was optimistic about his recovery and speculated that the attack had been a response to an article he had just published against Iran. His unexpected death prompted the family to voice their concerns both over the state’s inability to apprehend the assailants and for what they saw as a case of medical negligence on the part of the chief physician of the hospital where he had been treated.
A few days later, Moḥammad Javād Fāżel Lankarānī (Lankarānī Jr) publicly saluted the implementation of his late father’s opinion that it was incumbent upon anyone having access to Rafīq Tağı to kill him on several counts of apostasy from Islam. Lankarānī’s father (Lankarānī Sr) had deduced Tağı’s apostasy from Islam from a series of critical pieces that the latter had penned and published in a local, low-distribution newspaper, Ṣan‘at. One of these articles, titled “Europe and Us”, had also landed Rafīq Tağı in jail on a count of breaching Article 283, paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. The court had concluded that Rafīq Tağı’s piece could be construed as hate speech for which Article 283 of the Criminal Code, in a section on crimes against the state, provides for sentencing with a fine and imprisonment of between two and four years.
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