9 body of evidence in the instant case. In doing so, the Court will follow the rules of reasonable credit and weight analysis, within the applicable legal framework. A) DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE 46. The representatives submitted witness statements, the State submitted four witness statements and the Commission filed an expert report, all through affidavits, except for the expert witness proposed by the Commission whose report was rendered before notary public as commanded by the President under Order of September 22, 2005 (supra para. 24). Said statements and expert reports are summarized as follows: 1. Statement by witness proposed by the representatives: a) Milton Freire-Pereira, former psychiatric patient During ten years Milton was a psychiatric inpatient; at present, he is the director of the Instituto Franco Baságlia and a member of the “Movimento Antimanicomial” [AntiMental Hospitalization Movement]. He still has strong memories of the hospital rooms were he was admitted for treatment and the electroshock he received while in there. His rehabilitation took place outside hospitals. Milton was really upset when he learned of the demeaning and humiliating death of Mr. Damião Ximenes-Lopes. His death was surrounded by disgraceful rumors regarding to people with mental illness. There is a general belief that no treatment to cure mental disability exists. Such belief is rooted in segregation, closure, violence and lack of social relationships to which such people are subject. Mental health care in the State changed radically with the implementation of services substituting for the psychiatric hospital model. In the current model, there is multidisciplinary participation of professionals such as psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists. Yet, the hospital-centered asylum model still prevails. This model continues to kill, enslave and isolate forever those people who need mental health care by denying the possibility of rehabilitating and participating in their own treatment. 2. Statements by witnesses proposed by the State: a) José Jackson Coelho-Sampaio, psychiatrist From 1962 to 1991, psychiatric care in Brazil was provided through the admission of patients in private hospitals, a method instated during the Brazilian military dictatorship. There were six private hospitals in the state of Ceará, all of them associated with the public administration, including Casa de Reposo Guararapes, in Sobral. There was a psychiatric reform movement that resulted in the creation of the Psychosocial Care Center (hereinafter, “Psychosocial Care Center”, or “CAPS”, for its acronym in Spanish) in the city of Iguatu and the enactment of Law “Mario Mamede.” Between 1991 and 1998, several Psychosocial Care Centers were created and, between 1999 and 2000, this assistance model was enhanced. Between 2001

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