# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rafiq-tag
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:29.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rafiq-tag"
name: "Rafiq Tağı"
slug: "rafiq-tag"
description: "Rafiq Tağı, born Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev was an Azerbaijani short story writer and a journalist who worked for Sanat newspaper until police arrested him and Sanat editor Samir Sadagatoglu for writing \"Europe and Us\", an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was considered to be inciting racial hatred and sentenced to three years in prison. Released on a presidential pardon some months later he was assassinated in a car park."
tagline: "Azerbaijani journalist (1950–2011)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1950-08-05"
deathDate: "2011-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27545066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A"
    title: "رفيق تاجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "رافيك تاجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "রফিক তাগি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82_%D8%AA%D9%82%DB%8C"
    title: "رافق تقی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Rafiq Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Таги, Рафик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refik_Ta%C4%9F%C4%B1"
    title: "Refik Tağı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2121629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump