Rafig Taghi, the writer, died at the hospital 4 days after being stabbed in the street. He said before his death he suspects Iranian agents or radical islamists in this crime. Taghi, author of anti-Islamist and anti-Iranian regime articles, spent one year in prison for inciting religious hatred by insulting prophet Mohammed in 2006. Iranian ayatollah Lankarani issued then a fatwa suggesting to kill Rafig Taghi for his writings.