A Judicial Official: Maryam Faraji’s Killer Was Her ‘Former Fiancé’
The prosecutor of Fardis City in Karaj says that Maryam Faraji’s “former fiancé” has been arrested on charges of murdering this civil and student activist and has confessed to the killing.
According to a report from Iran’s Judiciary News Agency, with the arrest of Maryam Faraji’s “former fiancé,” the body of the victim was discovered in the killer’s sister’s garden and transferred to the forensic medicine department.
Maryam Faraji, a 33-year-old civil activist, a graduate student of international management, and financial director of a company in Shahr-e Rey, was arrested on December 12, 2017, coinciding with the unrest and student protests in December in Tehran. She was held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison’s Intelligence Department for 10 days of interrogation.
Ms. Faraji was sentenced to three years in prison and two years of travel ban “on charges of assembly and conspiracy” in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court and was released on bail.
Mohammad Agassi, Maryam Faraji’s lawyer, told Voice of America on Friday, July 22, that Maryam Faraji has been missing since Thursday and did not reach the place she was supposed to go, and the analysis of him and her family is that she has likely been killed.
Source: Voice of America
