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The Mare Liberum
GERMANY delivered a devastating blow today to a human rights organisation operating in the Aegean Sea by ordering the detention of its ships.
Not-for-profit association Mare Liberum told the German Transport Ministry last week that it intended to send its ships, the Mare Liberum and Sebastian K, to the Aegean and resume monitoring the Greek and Turkish coastguard’s treatment of refugees, despite a recent change in the law designed to stop them.
“We are furious and won’t accept the blockade of our mission for solidarity and human rights,” said Mare Liberum board member Hanno Bruchmann.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated
This time it is joined by famed Amazon union organiser Chris Smalls and the new vessel, the Handala, will carry baby formula for Gaza’s starving children just weeks after Israeli forces abducted the Madleen’s crew in international waters, reports ANA VRACAR
