According
to the Communiqué number 33 from the “Reza Shahabi Defence Committee“, the
Branch 36 of appeal court based in the Islamic Revolution Court has approved
the sentence for Reza Shahabi. The sentence is not yet announced officially,
but officials from the branch office have announced that to the attorney of
Reza Shahabi. This sentence includes Six-year imprisonment, five years of ban on
union activities, he is also sentenced to pay a fine of seven million Tomans
into the State
coffers. This is the sum of money collected from many workers
(whose
names are documented on websites), which was given by Reza, as a trustee to the
families of imprisoned workers.
According
to the report, when Reza's lawyer criticized the confirmation of sentence
without any re-examination of the case, the authorities answered him: "If
they wanted the case to be re-examined, they would not send it to this
branch." This answer proves that this is only a show trial.
Reza
Shahabi, Executive Board member and Treasurer of the Syndicate of Workers of
Tehran Vahed Bus Company is kept in Prison since June 2010.
