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40-day nightmare over for 27 stranded refugees on commercial ship
Mare Jonio transfers the castaways and brings them to Italy
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[Mediterranea: Saving Humans] 
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
THE nightmare journey for 27 refugees blockaded from Europe for 40 days and left in limbo on a merchant vessel finally came to an end this weekend.
Twenty-six men and a pregnant woman fled Libya in a wooden boat on August 3.
Their boat was spotted by Moonbird, a reconnaissance plane operated by German rescue charity Sea Watch, inside Malta’s search-and-rescue zone the next day.
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Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
