Human Rights Watch, in its annual World Report, says that Iranians continue to face serious rights abuses, despite President Hassan Rouhani's promises to respect citizen's rights. "Authorities have released some prominent political prisoners but executions continued at high rates," said HRW in a press release. "Officials continued to detain many civil society activists and leading opposition figures." The report also said that Iran "denies freedom of religion to adherents of the Baha’i Faith, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, and discriminates against them."