43 90.17. When he was detained, Mr. Tibi was not allowed to communicate with his spouse or with his country’s Consulate. Subsequently, he was able to inform Beatrice Baruet that he was detained at the Cuartel Modelo in Guayaquil.64 However, when Mrs. Baruet went to said military garrison, the officers in charge stated that Mr. Tibi was not there. Mrs. Baruet and an attorney visited other detention centers in Guayaquil, with the aim of finding Daniel Tibi, but they returned to the city of Quito without having found him. A few days later, through the wife of a detainee at the Penitenciaría del Litoral, Mr. Tibi was able to inform his then spouse where he was detained.65 90.18. On October 4, 1995, the First Criminal Judge of the Guayas, Ángel Rubio Game, issued a preventive detention order against Daniel Tibi and the others accused in the “Camarón” operation, and began the criminal proceeding with the court order to investigate the alleged crime,66 which was not notified. Mr. Tibi learned about the content of the court order to investigate the alleged crime several weeks later, through the defense counsel of another detainee.67 Daniel Tibi was not brought immediately before the case judge, nor was he examined by said judge.68 90.19. Mr. Tibi had no defense counsel for a month,69 despite the fact that the court order to investigate the alleged crime had assigned him a court-appointed defense counsel,70 a fact that he was unaware of, and he never met this defense counsel.71 90.20. On October 5, 1995 Daniel Tibi was taken from the Cuartel Modelo de Guayaquil to the Centro de Rehabilitación Social de Varones of Guayaquil or Penitenciaría del Litoral,72 where he was imprisoned in the cell block known as “the 64 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004; and testimony of Beatrice Baruet rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 65 See testimony of Beatrice Baruet rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 66 See court order to investigate the alleged crime issued by the First Criminal Judge of the Guayas on October 4, 1995 (file with appendixes to the application, volume II, appendix 13, leaves 393 to 407; and file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaves 1104 to 1118). 67 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 68 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 69 See preliminary statement rendered by Daniel Tibi before the First Criminal Court of the Guayas on March 21, 1996 (file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaves 1402 to 1404); and testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 70 See court order to investigate the alleged crime issued by the First Criminal Court of the Guayas on October 4, 1995 (file with appendixes to the application, volume II, appendix 13, leaf 401; and file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaf 1112). 71 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 72 See control table of the Dirección Nacional de Prisiones (file with appendixes to the application, volume III, appendix 34, leaf 579; file with appendixes to the brief with arguments and motions, appendix