VANCOUVER - Detention hearings continued Friday in two locations for the Chinese refugee claimants found on a decrepit boat off Vancouver Island.

In Vancouver, hearings have started for 17 of 19 claimants who were moved to the city jail on Thursday.

The other two have already had their hearings in Esquimalt and were ordered held in custody by immigration officers.

A fourth straight day of hearings is going on at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, where the other 95 refugee claimants are still being kept.