TIMELINE: Alsu Kurmasheva: Revered American-Russian Journalist, Wrongfully Detained by Russian Authorities
Alsu Kurmasheva, a distinguished Russian-American journalist and editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was unfairly detained by Russian authorities on October 18, 2023, sentenced unjustly on July 19, 2024, and was freed in a US-Russia prison swap together with Evan Gershkovich and others on August 1, 2024.