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Claus-Peter Reisch (centre) with his lawyers outside the Court of Criminal Appeal in Malta
[Mission Lifeline] 
THE captain of an NGO migrant rescue ship was vindicated today after a Maltese court overturned the state’s conviction against him for entering the country’s waters without the proper registration.
The island nation slapped Captain Claus-Peter Reisch with a €10,000 (£8,497) fine last May for sailing without a flag – a legal requirement for all ships sailing at sea.
Mr Reisch and the crew of the Lifeline, a ship operated by the German charity Mission Lifeline, had rescued 234 refugees from the central Mediterranean at the time and were flying the Netherlands’s flag.
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