# Moscow court orders in-absentia arrest of FAZ journalist Martens

https://mins.news/en/item/32848

- TASS, 2026-08-26 09:48 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2177825

> Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has ordered the in-absentia pretrial detention of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Michael Martens in a criminal case over remarks about killing Russians. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called his alleged calls for Russians’ murder unacceptable and criminal.

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