Two students studying abroad have appealed to Cypriot courts seeking to obtain a court order allowing them to repatriate.

Attorney-General Costas Clerides told CNA that the two students appealed to the District and Administrative Courts seeking temporary emergency decrees allowing them to repatriate to Cyprus, contesting the constitutionality and legitimacy of the government’s measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus.

Every citizen, of course, has the right to exercise his/her individual legal rights before courts, Clerides said adding that at the same time, the Republic has the right and obligation to defend the obligation and legality of taking the painful measures it did for the common good, said Clerides.

The AG said that although he did not believe that during these critical times Cyprus and the whole world are going through, one should engage in litigation over the legality of measures that concern life or death, since the students exercised their rights justice cannot remain silent.