Didactic Courses for A Killer

Rafig Taghi was born in Masally town in 1950. His poems, stories, essays, articles and sketches published in the mass-media have always caused social controversy and serious polemics. In 2004 he was dismissed from the Azerbaijan Writers' Union due to his essay titled Shaumyan, the Caucasian eagle . In November 2006 he was arrested because of his article Europe and Us published in the Art Newspaper in Baku and was sentenced to three years imprisonment. He was a member of the Free Writers' Hearth . He was the author of several prose books including Close Stars (1987), For My Enemy's Sake (1991), Positive. Negative (1996), two-volume Princess Dipendra's Love (2005), Tall Midget (2005) and Young Earl Kentenberiyski (2006). In November 2011 he was assassinated in unknown circumstances. In May 2012 a memorial sheet named after Rafig Taghi, Azerbaijani journalist, writer and publicist, was established in the Journalists' Memorial Museum of Washington. See more