According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, around midnight on Friday, February 28, 2025, a 12-year-old girl named Fatima Soleimani, from Harsin, a district in Kermanshah province, hanged herself due to forced marriage, resulting in her death.
Fatima became a victim of severe psychological and physical violence by her father, Farhamand, after rejecting a marriage proposal from one of her relatives—her sister’s husband’s brother. She was even threatened with death. The child had repeatedly told her family that she would take her own life if the pressure continued.
According to Hana’s information, the suitor was a military officer who, despite the girl’s young age and the significant age gap, persistently pursued this inhumane relationship.