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Videos from Iran show members of Basiji forces are collecting money from citizens to help fight coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Security forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Mustafa Salimi an Iranian Kurdish political activist on Tuesday and deported him to Iran, one of Salimi’s family members told Avatoday.

The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said dozens of Iranian prisoners are believed to have been killed by security forces after brutal force was used to put down protests over fears related to coronavirus spreading in the country’s jails.

Based on the reports received by Avatoday from the city of Saqez, more than 125 people including medical staff who were diagnosed with the coronavirus died in Imam the cities’ two hospitals.

Iranian authorities have deployed dozens of anti-aircraft missile systems along the coastline of the Strait of Hormuz, videos received by Avatoday show.

Tens of people including 15 health personnel in Kurdistan Province’s city of Dehgolan have been diagnosed with Coronavirus while the city suffers from lack of COVID-19 test kits, source said on Saturday.

Dr. Rahim Yousifpour, a specialist from Kurdish city of Saqez published a video on his Instagram page on Friday saying he is under constant pressure from judiciary due to his pre-warning about coronavirus outbreak.

25 health personnel of Besat Hospital in the Kurdish city of Sine (Sanandaj) have been infected with Coronavirus due to lack of proper protection equipment, three sources confirmed to Avatoday on Thursday.

New waves of prison riots were reported in several prisons across Iran on Sunday and Monday amid coronavirus outbreak, eyewitnesses told Avatoday.

An informed source from Iran’s Ministry of Health on Monday sent a list of latest data on Iran’s Coronavirus victims to Avatoday, which shows sharp difference from that released by the government.