Indignant at Iran repression, executions - Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 11 - President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday received Iran's new ambassador to Italy Mohammad Reza Sabouri for the presentation of his credentials and voiced Italy's firm condemnation and his own personal indignation at the brutal repression of demonstrations and the death penalties and executions of many demonstrators in the Asian country in protests spawned by the death in hijab police custody of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in mid-September, the presidential palace said.
    Mattarella asked Sabour to convey to his government the urgency of immediately putting an end to the violence against the population and said "the respect with which Italy looks to its international partners and their laws finds an insurmountable limit in the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", the president's office said.
    Italian officials including Premier Giorgia Meloni and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani have repeatedly condemned the brutal repression of the protests by the Tehran regime, with teenagers executed and a girl as young as 14 allegedly raped and killed by police. (ANSA).