“WE ARE going to sail,” human rights activists told the Star today despite the German government’s recent law changes aimed at stopping them.

In June the country’s transport ministry blocked German-flagged humanitarian ships from sailing in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas when it changed the wording of a law regulating the safety requirements for yachts and other small vessels.

“The change of law means that we can’t register our boat as a leisure craft and have to meet the same safety requirements as merchant vessels,” Lisa, a German activist from the Mare Liberum, told the Star.