Quite often officers at the police station are so overwhelmed with paperwork that they keep some of them at the station for hours and let them go hours later without registering the detention or giving the detained person any document explaining it. Protesters are routinely arrested at unauthorized rallies in Moscow. 'We've talked to police and they have told us there is no record whatsoever to any detention or arrest,' Sochi organizing committee spokeswoman Alexandra Kosterina said. Sochi organizers said Monday they had no information of any such incident. Greetings in the colors of the rainbow, in Putin's face.' Sochi police would not comment. Before her arrest, she tweeted: 'I'm in Sochi.
Her website published a photograph of her after her release. It was not known if she was charged with any offense. Vladimir Luxuria, a former Communist lawmaker in the Italian parliament who has become a prominent transgender rights crusader, said on her website and Twitter feed that she was held for several hours Sunday before being released. Sochi, Russia: An Italian gay-rights activist says she was detained by police in the Olympic host city after being stopped while carrying a rainbow flag saying 'Gay is OK' in Russian. Follow us on italian gay activist briefly detained in sochi