"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) deemed a million-dollar lawsuit against El Diario de Hoy in El Salvador and one of its journalists to be intimidating. The organization condemned the disproportionate legal harassment that violates Inter-American standards protecting freedom of the press.
Businessman Yakov Fauster is demanding five million dollars in compensation from Editorial Altamirano Madriz S.A. de C.V, the publisher of El Diario de Hoy, and the same amount from its journalist Jorge Beltrán Luna, as reparation for alleged moral damages. The case is related to the reproduction, in an article signed by Beltrán on Jan. 14, 2022, of several paragraphs from a journalistic investigation by the Mexican magazine Proceso about cyber espionage companies, in which Fauster's name appears as the owner of one of them."
