Tens of thousands of prisoners in Iran have been released temporarily as the country tries to reduce coronavirus infections, officials say.
More than 54,000 inmates had been let out after testing negative for the virus, Iran's judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said.
A British MP has said Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman detained for almost four years over spying allegations she denies, is expected to be granted a temporary release in the coming days.
Iran has so far reported 77 deaths - the highest figure outside of China - as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, with 2,336 infections recorded(Go here).
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