"2017 was a year marked by an avalanche of requests directly linked to the measures taken after the attempted coup in Turkey", the head of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Guido Raimondi, stated on Thursday 25 January, adding that these requests came"mainly from people placed in detention, especially journalists and judges".
The requests number 30,000 but at this stage the ECHR has declared 27,800 of them inadmissible "for failure to exhaust domestic avenues of appeal" –...