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The Mare Liberum in the Aegean Sea
[Mare Liberum]
RIGHTS campaigners who monitor Greece and Turkey’s handling of the migrant crisis in the Aegean Sea won a court case against a German government ruling yesterday that was preventing their ship from leaving the Greek island of Lesbos.
On April 23 the German Transport Ministry gave the Mare Liberum, a 69ft yacht operated by a charity of the same name, an order of suspension requiring the vessel to fulfil the same safety checks as freighter ships.
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