Rafeq Nazeruglu Taqizadeh

رافق ناظراوغلو تقی‌زاده

61 years old · Baku

23 November 2011 Assassinated abroad

Life

• He was a well-known secular doctor, writer, poet and journalist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
  Persian original

  او پزشک، نویسنده، شاعر و روزنامه نگار سرشناس لائیک جمهوری آذربایجان بود.

• He was married and had two children
  Persian original

  او متاهل و دارای دو فرزند بود

• He was a member and director of the “Union of Free Writers of Azerbaijan”
  Persian original

  او عضو و مدیر «اتحادیه نویسندگان آزاد آذربایجان» بود

• He got up at five in the morning so as to find time to write before starting work, and on holidays too he sat at the computer and wrote with enthusiasm
  Persian original

  او ساعت پنج صبح بیدار می‌شد تا پیش از اینکه کارش را شروع کند، فرصت نوشتن پیدا کند و روزهای تعطیل هم پشت کامپیوتر بود و با اشتیاق می‌نوشت

• Give life as a gift, not death! I don't like you either, but I do not sentence you to death.
  Persian original

  زندگی را هدیه کن نه مرگ را! من هم از شما خوشم نمی‌آید، اما من به مرگ شما حکم نمی‌کنم.

In the words of those close to them

“He told stories with great joy and laughed with us... tears would stream from his eyes with laughter...”.— His daughter

Persian original

«او با خوشحالی زیاد داستان تعریف می‌کرد و با ما می‌خندید... او از خنده اشکش سرازیر می‌شد...».

If my government does not help, I will ask foreign countries for help. "— Ms. Mayla Taghiyeva

Persian original

اگر دولت من کمک نکند، از کشورهای خارجی درخواست کمک خواهم کرد. "

How they died

• Mr. Taghi was attacked by an unknown person on Saturday, 28 Aban 1390, at 10 p.m. on his way home from work and was seriously wounded with seven knife stabs to the chest area
  Persian original

  آقای تقی روز شنبه ٢٨ آبان ١٣٩٠ ساعت ١٠ شب در راه برگشت به خانه از سر کار مورد حمله شخص ناشناسی قرار گرفت و با هفت ضربه چاقو به ناحیه سینه بشدت زخمی شد

• Ten minutes after the doctor left, Mr. Taghi vomited and died
  Persian original

  ده دقیقه بعد از رفتن پزشک آقای تقی استفراغ کرد و درگذشت

• Extrajudicial execution » extrajudicial execution with a firearm
  Persian original

  اعدام فراقضایی » اعدام فراقضایی با سلاح گرم

After their death

• The Mashregh website wrote in its report on Mr. Taghi's death: “The Salman Rushdie* of Azerbaijan has perished”
  Persian original

  وبسایت مشرق در گزارش خود در رابطه با مرگ آقای تقی نوشت: «سلمان رشدی* آذربایجان به هلاکت رسید»

• On 7 Bahman 1392, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Azerbaijan informed Mr. Taghi's wife that his case had been closed because no one had been arrested
  Persian original

  دادستانی جمهوری آذربایجان در ۷ بهمن ١٣٩٢ به همسر آقای تقی اطلاع داد که پرونده آقای تقی را به این دلیل که کسی بازداشت نشده بسته شده است

Sources

1. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center — Omid memorial

The name is recorded in at least two independent sources or in a human-rights organisation’s report.

Listed in

• Killed abroad
• Doctors and nurses
• The year 1390 (2011–2012)

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