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Dr. Shirin Ebadi participate in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, in Chicago. in an interview Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 with The Associated Press, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi strongly criticized the human rights record of President Hassan Rouhani, citing a dramatic increase in executions since he took office this year and accusing the government of lying about the release of political prisoners. Ebadi, a U.S.-based human rights lawyer who since 2009 has lived outside Iran in self-exile, said that Rouhani may have the reputation of a moderate reformer, but so far "we get bad signals" from the new government when it comes to human rights. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)