The Mare Liberum refugee-rescue ship
[Toni Petraschk] 
“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.
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