7 took his sister Margarita to visit her husband twice a week. In addition to visiting his brother-in-law, he devoted all his time to arrangements for securing his release, such as retaining attorneys and seeing to other formalities. It being a drugs case, the attorneys were unwilling to take it on, so that numerous visits had to be made before he eventually found one who would. b. Testimony of Margarita Ramadán de Suárez, wife of Rafael Iván SuárezRosero In June 1992 she was living in Quito with her husband, who worked as a security agent at the firm of Challenge Air Cargo. They have one daughter born in 1994. On June 23, 1992, she learned that Mr. Suárez-Rosero had been arrested. She tried to contact a lawyer the next day and went to the Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos [Ecumenical Human Rights Commission] (CEDHU) to seek help and discover how her husband was. During one of her early visits to his place of detention, she wrote a few words in a note and gave it to an officer, who later handed her a very brief note in which she recognized her husband's handwriting. She received his clothes every night and was struck by the fact that they always smelled strongly of damp. During the entire month that her husband was held incommunicado she tried to find an attorney and did so three days before the official police report was issued. She was not aware that she could have had access to a public defender nor did she know how many public defenders there were in Quito in 1992. In her view, the attorney was not guilty of the delaies in the case nor of lack of interest, and her brother helped with the arrangements. She was seldomly allowed to write to her husband between June 23 and July 28, 1992; she would scribble a few lines on the outside of the bag in which she sent his clothes. On July 28, 1992, she saw her husband for the first time since his arrest. She was allowed to visit him twice a week from then on. Mr. Suárez-Rosero was released on April 29, 1996; the order for his release had been ready 15 days before but was not executed because the officials charged with doing so kept forgetting and delaying matters. She has had a difficult time as a result of this Case; her husband is sometimes extremely depressed or suffers sudden mood swings. c. Testimony of María del Carmen Aguirre-Charvet, former official of the Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU) In June 1992 she was working in the legal department of the Ecumenical Commission. Margarita Ramadán made contact with her on June 24, 1992 or thereabouts. She helped her look for Mr. Suárez-Rosero and, to that end, spoke with Leonardo Carrión, Adviser to the Minister of the Home Office. Since this yielded no results, she presented an official note to the Adviser, who told her that she could not even leave the note in his office since the case was drug-related and he informed her that Mr. Suárez-Rosero would be incommunicado for approximately one month. d. Testimony of Rafael Iván Suárez-Rosero, alleged victim in this case He never saw an arrest warrant. He was apprehended in the early hours of June 23, 1992, together with Mr. Nelson Salgado, by two hooded individuals traveling in an unmarked vehicle, who informed him that he was being arrested in connection with a report that the occupants of a "Trooper" were burning drugs in the Zámbiza ravine. They were taken to the Interpol offices, where they were placed in the cells at the back. He never saw or discovered the name of the person who had made the report. He had never taken part in the acts imputed to him. He was not allowed to inform