Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners, including many arrested in recent anti-government protests on security-related charges, the country's state media said today.

"Prisoners who do not face charges of spying for foreign agencies, are not directly connected to foreign agents, did not intentionally kill or injure anyone, destroy or burn state property, will be pardoned," the media reported.

The pardons will be announced on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The activist agency HRANA states that in the anti-government protests caused by the death of Mahsa Amini, in September of last year, around 20.000 people have been arrested so far.

Twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in custody on September 16, 2022, after being arrested three days earlier by Iranian morality police for "inappropriate" clothing.

The protests spread across 160 cities in Iran.

At least 527 people have died in the protests so far, the American Human Rights Agency states in its report, and among them were 71 minors and 70 policemen and other security forces.

The execution of the death penalty has been announced for more than a hundred arrested, and several protesters have already been executed.