David Ravelo: A year in Prison

At the end of August 2011, nearly a year after his initial incarceration, a judge formally opened trial proceedings against recognised human rights defender and economist David Ravelo, who is accused of murdering David Nuñez Cala in 1991. Ravelo is one of the most important social leaders in the Magdalena Medio. In 30 years spent defending human rights, he has denounced innumerable extrajudicial executions, displacements and forced disappearances in the region