A young woman has been jailed for five days for wearing rainbow-colored earrings. A court in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, based the arrest sentence on the display of "extremist symbolism" It was the first known case of a prison sentence for rainbow symbolism since Russia classified the LGBTQI+ community as "extremeist" last November.
Human rights activists have already warned that the classification is aimed at silencing queer activists in the Russian public.