The case Y.F.C. and Others v. the Netherlands (application no. 21325/19) concerned seven Venezuelan nationals intercepted in April 2019 off the coast of Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean. Following their interception, the applicants were arrested, brought ashore and placed in detention pending removal.

In its Chamber judgment delivered , the European Court of Human Rights found:

• unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment/procedural limb) of the European Convention on Human Rights owing to the lack of an effective and independent investigation into the use of rubber bullets against four applicants during an incident that occurred while the authorities attempted to transfer them from one detention facility to another;
• by six votes to one, that there had been a violation of Article 3 (substantive limb) concerning the use of force against three applicants who had provided evidence that they had either been injured by rubber bullets or kicked in the back during the attempted transfer;
• unanimously, that there had been no violation of Article 3 with regard to one applicant who had been present during the incident but had provided no evidence of injury; and
• unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 5 § 4 (right to have the lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a court) in respect of all seven applicants, as they had no access to legal assistance during the first week of their detention and therefore could not reasonably have brought legal proceedings to effectively challenge their detention.

The Court declared all remaining complaints submitted by the applicants inadmissible.