Pres. Hassan Rouhani has signed into law a landmark bill of rights, guaranteeing freedom of speech, protest, fair trials and privacy, saying the achievement was "one of my oldest dreams" despite Iran being considered one of the biggest human rights violator with an unprecedented number of executions in the past three decades. Although many of the rights are already enshrined in Iran’s constitution written after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Rouhani said it offered the first clear list of principles that could be used to check the performance of state institutions.
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