At a time when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is coming under repeated attacks, challenging its position as a supranational court, the report on the execution of its judgments in 2016 shows positive results.
The report, published on Wednesday 5 April by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM), which is responsible for supervising execution, says a record number of cases were closed in 2016: 2,066 compared with 1,537 cases in 2015. A large number of these cases relate...