Four Kurd political activists sentenced to heavy prison terms Kurdistan- July 14.2010 After increased security measures in Kurdistan and the arrest of a large number of Kurd activists by security forces, four Kurd activists named Neimat Eshaqi, Poshtivan Asm, Loqman Monfaredi and Sabah Khayat were each sentenced to long prison sentences. Neimat Eshaqi was arrested on December 4, 2009 in Kamyaran by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in this city and was transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center. He was sentenced to 12 years of prison in a Sanandaj Court on charges of cooperation with a Kurd dissident party. Poshtivan Asm from the Haniman Village in Kamyaran was arrested on December 1, 2009 in Saqez by security forces. There was no information on his whereabouts for two months in the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency Detention Center where he was under severe torture. Asm was sentenced to 15 years of prison by the Revolutionary Court in this city on charges of cooperation with a dissident Kurd party. Loqman Mofaredi was arrested by security forces in Kamyaran and after three moths of severe torture in the Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center; the same court sentenced him to 11 years of prison on charges of cooperation with a dissident Kurd party. Sabah Khayat from Kamyaran was arrested on December 4 in Kermanshah by security forces in this city and was taken to the Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center and after three months of torture, was sentenced to 11 years of prison on charges of cooperation with a dissident Kurd party.