While she may have just spent a few hours detained in a Russian police station, the trans activist and former MP is determined to continue making a political statement against anti-gay laws.

Vladimir Luxuria, a former politician in the Italian parliament, was arrested in Sochi while holding a waving flag saying ‘Gay Is OK’ in Russian.

‘I’ve been freed and tomorrow I’ll watch the Games,’ the 48-year-old advocate wrote in a text message, according to the ANSA news agency.

Luxuria, who is also a TV presenter and journalist, was in Sochi to shoot a report on the Olympics and Russia’s anti-gay laws.

The reporters posted on Facebook a photo of Luxuria making a victory sign upon release.

‘They freed her. Everything is alright,’ they wrote.

And Luxuria isn’t stopping there, she has also announced she will attend an ice hockey match this week in a rainbow dress.

‘The goal, of course, is to protest against the law of homophobic Putin,’ she said.

Following Luxuria’s arrest, the Italian foreign ministry launched crisis talks with the Russians to release her from her imprisonment.

Reports of her arrest provoked outrage and condemnation from senior political figures.

‘Rebellious, free, unafraid of the state’s morality police. Thank you, Vladimir Luxuria,’ Nichi Vendola, the openly gay head of the Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) party, said.

Luxuria became the first trans MP ever in Europe when she was elected to serve in Italian parliament from 2006 to 2008.