Julio Godoy

He was considered Guatemala's top investigative reporter before he was forced to flee the country under government pressure to silence him.

Reporting under constantly dangerous conditions, Godoy was kidnapped once, and the weekly newspaper he helped found was blown up.

In 1990, he moved to Germany and worked as a freelancer, writing about refugees and German economic affairs.

Godoy also lived in Paris for several years before returning to Germany, where he is reporting for Inter Press Service news agency.

He was a Nieman fellow in 1989, and in 1996 received a Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett grant..