Arrests and Imprisonment
On 25 November 2007, Nemtsov was arrested by police during an unauthorized protest against President Putin, he told the press. Nemtsov was released later that day.
On 31 December 2010, Nemtsov was arrested with other opposition leaders during a rally against government restrictions on public protests. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail on 2 January 2011. The arrests were condemned by US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, and by Amnesty International who described him as a prisoner of conscience. The Economist called his arrest "a new low" in the governance of Russia. Boris Nemtsov filled a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, who according to his lawyer, immediately accepted Nemtsov's complaint and agreed to treat the case among its new urgent procedure.
On 6 December 2011 Nemtsov was once again arrested, with at least a hundred of others demonstrators, during the December 6 protests in Moscow.
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