Damião Ximenes: Primeira Condenação Do Brasil Na Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos

Rio de Janeiro: Editora Revan, 2009. Octavo in beige illus wraps; 238 p.; 21 cm. Fine; as new. Paperback. ISBN: 8571063915

In Portuguese. Uncommon. Introduces the reader to the dramatic account of the case Damião Ximenes, a patient with mental disorder who was detained, beaten and killed in a psychiatric clinic located in Sobral, in October 4, 1999. From this case, the author describes the public denunciation by Irene Ximenes Lopes Miranda, sister of Damiao, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS), and shows the whole trajectory of the case up to the sentencing of Brazil by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2006. // Law. legal cases. Human rights -- Brazil -- Cases. Mental health laws -- Brazil -- Cases. Direitos e garantias individuais, -- Brasil. Direitos humanos. Doente mental, -- Brasil. Ximenes, Damião, 1969-1999. Ximenes, Damião, 1969-1999. Inter-American Court of Human Rights.