WILLEMSTAD.- The team of the Caribbean Human Rights Foundation has reported the terrible situation regarding the hunger strike that began last Friday from 5 pm, by a group of foreigners of about 24 men and 8 women from Venezuela. One of the collaborators of the HRC Foundation, managed to make contact by telephone with a representative of the protest movement that is happening with the number of Venezuelans in the prison, the man named Johan Ferreira reported that they are on hunger strike.
He said: “We are 24 men and 8 women, there was a minor, the police took us since last Friday night and we still do not know their whereabouts. We have refused to take food as a protest, demanding our rights to be helped by the humanitarian crisis that is happening in Venezuela. We ask the Government of Curaçao, the Minister of Justice together with the Dutch Government, the United Nations and Amnesty International to grant us our freedom, we are not criminals, we do not want to be deported, because Venezuela is experiencing a globally known humanitarian crisis and both the Government of Curaçao and the Dutch Government can help us and grant us a work permit to be able to help our families who are in a precarious condition in our country. “
Ferreira said that there are 3 of them sick in prison that have not been treated medically, and has not completed anything, to facilitate the use of medicines. Johan Ferreira has not received any kind of response from government authorities or from Curaçao or the Netherlands. Meanwhile, they will continue to protest through the hunger strike. Ferreira quoted: “We prefer to die of hunger than to return to our country of origin.”
