03-02-2012 12:16:04

Doctors ‘not to blame’ for stabbed Azeri writer’s death

Doctors were not to blame for the death of writer and newspaper columnist Rafig Tagi who died after being stabbed in Baku late last year, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Tagi died on November 23, 2011 in a hospital where he had been treated following a brutal attack on him four days earlier. Doctors said Tagi died of inflammation of the lungs as a result of the multiple stab wounds he suffered. Law enforcers filed a criminal case on charges of murder.

Investigators at a meeting held by Prosecutor-General Zakir Garalov and Interior Minister Ramil Usubov said that no facts of negligence on the part of medical workers have been revealed. “The outcomes of a forensic expertise showed that death was caused by stab wounds,” they said.

Investigation into Tagi’s murder is underway.

Rafiq Tagi was stabbed by an unknown assailant, shortly after giving an interview in which he said he thought the attack had been orchestrated by someone angry with his articles, in particular one called “Iran and the Inevitability of Globalisation”, published on the website kulis.az on November 11 which had been critical of the Iranian authorities. The Iranian Embassy in Baku denied any Iranian involvement in his killing.

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