A judicial official: Maryam Faraji's killer was her "ex-fiancé"
The prosecutor of Fardis County, Karaj, says that Maryam Faraji's "former fiancé" has been arrested on charges of murdering the civil activist and student, and has confessed to the murder.
According to the Iranian Judiciary News Agency, with the arrest of Maryam Faraji's "ex-fiancé", the body of the victim was discovered in the garden of the killer's sister and transferred to the forensic medicine department.
Maryam Faraji, a 33-year-old civil activist, a senior student in international management and the financial manager of a company in Shahriar, was arrested on January 2, 2017, during the student unrest and protests in Tehran in January, and was interrogated for 10 days in Ward 209 of Evin Prison.
Ms. Faraji was sentenced to three years in prison and a two-year travel ban by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of "assembly and collusion," and was released on bail.
On Friday, July 13, Maryam Faraji's lawyer, Mohammad Aghasi, told VOA that Maryam Faraji had disappeared since Thursday and had not arrived at the place she was supposed to go, and his and her family's analysis is that she was probably murdered.
Source: Voice of America
