That's fascinating that a telegram to a court claiming an illegal detention is taken as a "writ petition" (for habeas corpus, presumably). I can see now why thi

That's fascinating that a telegram to a court claiming an illegal detention is taken as a "writ petition" (for habeas corpus, presumably). I can see now why this system's loss would push someone to hunger strike in protest -- seems like a super cheap way to access the courts. My experience has only been in the US, where court filing fees are pretty high and can run hundreds of dollars unless you can jump through quite a few hoops to prove you're poor enough to get those fees waived (ideally a lawyer working pro bono would do it for you). The filing fees are a combination of user fees to the government + fees paid to private vendors who set up the sites you upload the PDFs to for filing.