Russia: Government critics sentenced to prison

They criticize the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: Well, three Russian dissidents in jail - officially because they are "disobedient to the police" were. The offender had demonstrated on New Year's Eve against the government. Moscow - In Russia, three senior opposition politician to multi-day jail sentences have been condemned.

The man is "disobedient to the police" have been accused of following a protest, a spokesman said on Sunday. Fast-track ex-Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov on Sunday was sentenced to 15 days in jail. The 51-year-old deputy prime minister from 1997 to 1998, is considered one of the most influential leaders of the extra-parliamentary opposition.

He is leader of the opposition group "solidarity" and one of the harshest critics of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov has been arrested several times. In addition, Konstantin Kosyakin became ten and Ilya Yaschin sentenced to five days in jail. It is the first time in about a year, that leader of the opposition were again sentenced to prison terms.

The men were on 31 was December, protests against restrictions on freedom of assembly as well as about 130 other demonstrators were arrested. The controversial and criticized international court decision, the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky get six more years in prison, the government's critics in Moscow and St.

Petersburg at the end of the year had driven to the streets. "There is no justice," said Nemtsov had before it took the police. On 31 of the month to protest the opposition regularly in the capital. They refer to the obligation under Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, freedom of assembly.

The police action is often against such demonstrations. Nemtsov described his arrest as an example of police brutality. "I sat two days in a windowless long and 1.5 meters by 2 small concrete cell with no mattress." / /

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