Callous the state to the problems of prisoners of 1974 Statement by Nikos Kettiros, member of parliament for AKEL and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees Today before the House Standing Committee on Refugees, the representatives of the Prisoners' Committee of 1974 raised their demands, including the request for free medical care.

They are not entitled by this state to free health care. We are forced and forced to implore the state to bear the minimum cost required for 750 people, to pay an honorary allowance so that they can cover the treatments free of charge, for health issues caused mainly by the tortures they have suffered from the Attiles either during their arrest or during their detention in prisons. that the presence of the Ministry of Finance, whose representative did not know where letters were sent by party leaders and specifically by the Secretary General of AKEL, which was sent six months ago and remains unanswered to this day, as well as letters sent by the prisoners of war themselves, setting out their demands, caused a very bad impression. They are asking for at least one response. As a Committee we have decided and in the next session we will prepare and send a letter to the Ministry of Finance, attaching the letters, which have not yet been replied to, asking the Ministry of Finance to take a clear position: they are willing to discuss and take the political decision to attribute the honorary allowance to those people who gave their lives and their soul for this place? Or will the state remain callous to watch people seventy, eighty years old cry and ache their bones?