Nine are the victims of the protests in Iran following the death of MahsaAmini, the 22-year-old who died after being arrested by the moral police in Tehran for not wearing the veil correctly.
It is the latest official balance sheet.
Meanwhile, protests in the country are spreading.
Protesters protested overnight in 15 Iranian cities, blocking traffic, setting fire to police bins and vehicles, throwing stones at security forces and chanting anti-government slogans.
The police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse the crowd, writes the Irna news agency.
Men and women, many of whom had taken off their veils, gathered in Tehran and other major cities, including Mashhad (north-east), Tabriz (north-west), Rasht (north), Isfahan (center) and Kish (south).
In some cases, women took off their hijabs and burned it to protest the country's mandatory headscarf law, and the videos were posted online.
American President
Joe Biden
, speaking at the 77th UN General Assembly, also expressed solidarity with Iranian women.
'We will not allow Iran to have the nuclear bomb - he said -.
The United States stands by the side of the courageous Iranian women '
In yesterday's protests, five people were killed by security forces in the Kurdish region of Iran during the violent protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old arrested by the moral police for not wearing a veil correctly and deceased from mistreatment.
The victims, according to the Kurdish human rights group Hengaw, based in Norway, were reportedly shot dead in Kurdistan (Mahsa region of origin), where police fired on men, women and children streets.
The spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office also says that "two to five people" have lost their lives.
