Husband of U.S. journalist detained in Russia: "I'm not going to give up"

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Sunday Morning Updated on: March 24, 2024 / 9:54 AM EDT / CBS News Detained: The heartbreaking ordeal of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva Detained: The heartbreaking ordeal of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva 08:00 Fifteen-year-old Bibi Butorin has not been at home with her mom in Prague since last spring.
She said her family understood that it was a risk for her mom to go to Russia: "But she was only going to go for two weeks, and it was for my sick grandmother."
Capus, who's worked at CBS and NBC, keeps photos of Kurmasheva and three other RFE/RL journalists who are currently detained (one in Russian-controlled Crimea, and two in Belarus) next to pictures of reporters who'd died while on duty.
She said, "There's a two-fold effect when you arrest a journalist, particularly when you arrest a journalist with foreign citizenship, as we see in Alsu and Evan's case: You have a political prisoner, so you have someone with which to negotiate with the U.S.; but this kind of action sends a powerful message to all journalists that they are not welcome."