WILLEMSTAD - Eight Venezuelans without valid residence papers are detained for longer than legally permitted. Human Rights Defense Curaçao reports that.

The new foundation dedicated to human rights says that Venezuelans in Curaçao are being detained behind barbed wire in overcrowded circumstances in crowded "alien barracks".

In the revised authorities' instruction in 2006 it was agreed that no one would be detained for longer than 6 months.