Iran executes Rana Faraj-oghli, forced child-marriage victim from Tabriz

Hengaw — Friday, December 5, 2025

Iranian authorities executed Rana Faraj-oghli, a Turkish woman from Tabriz who had previously been sentenced to death by the judiciary on the charge of “premeditated murder.” Faraj-oghli had been a victim of forced child marriage.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Faraj-oghli’s execution was carried out at dawn on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Tabriz Central Prison.

Faraj-oghli had been arrested two years earlier on the accusation of killing her husband and later sentenced to death by the judiciary.

Sources reported that she had been forced into marriage at the age of 16 to a man 19 years older. She endured years of what she described as “a life that felt no different from death,” and in court she stated she did not even want a lawyer because her only feeling was a desire for release from that life.

The execution has not been reported by government media, particularly outlets close to the judiciary.