“The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) adopted Resolution 12/2021 on Jan. 4, 2021, by which it granted precautionary measures in favor of 34 identified members of the El Faro digital newspaper in El Salvador, after considering that they are in a situation of gravity and urgency of risk of irreparable damage to their rights. […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) presented this Friday [Jan. 29] its annual report on freedom of expression in El Salvador, corresponding to 2020. It mentions an increase in attacks and digital harassment of journalists who question government officials. On the other hand, in 2020 there were 125 […]
"José Luis Sanz, director of El Faro since mid-2014, left his position at the end of 2020 to open an office in Washington D.C., officially inaugurated on Jan. 20 with his coverage of the presidential change in the United States. [...] 'Having a presence in the United States and specifically in Washington is a historical […]
“The special commission that carried out the investigation of the harassment of journalists concluded, after 15 working meetings and having listened to 26 communicators and entities, that some independent media and journalists are being harassed by the Government, which makes use of public resources to attack and threaten. [...] The report indicates that both the […]
"Salvadoran columnist, cronista and anthropologist Juan Martinez d'Aubuisson, who writes for digital newspaper El Faro, denounced this Friday on his social networks that last Monday he was the victim of an armed assault and pointed out that, according to 'sources of the state apparatus,' the event 'was orchestrated from within the Government' of President Nayib Bukele." […]
"Julia Gavarrete, a journalist for [Gato Encerrado], pointed out that there is a 'government media apparatus' dedicated to discrediting them. The special commission of the Legislative Assembly that investigates harassment of journalists from different media, and for which State resources have been used, received three journalists from digital magazine Gato Encerrado today to hear about […]
“The special commission that investigates the harassment of journalists and the media received representatives from El Faro and Mariana Belloso from La Prensa Gráfica. Specifically, the founder and director of the digital newspaper El Faro, Carlos Armando Dada, revealed to the deputies who are investigating the harassment of journalists and the media, that behind the […]
"Salvadoran authorities should make public any details about an alleged criminal investigation into InSight Crime journalist Héctor Silva Ávalos and stop using official social media channels to criticize and harass independent journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On September 1, Salvadoran news website La Página published an article reporting that the national Attorney General’s office had […]