The War On News

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Claim

Claim 79

CPJ described the freeze as affecting individual shareholders' personal assets.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement
CPJ described the freeze as affecting individual shareholders' personal assets.
Field
effect_on_reporting
Value
Shareholders' personal assets frozen
About
incident 2026-el-salvador-freezes-el-faro-shareholder-assets
Source
Bukele administration freezes Salvadoran news outlet's assets in latest act of retaliation
Publisher
Committee to Protect Journalists
Method
outlet report
Checked
2026-09-22
Confidence
medium
Status
current
Source date
2026-05-08

Quotation from the source

The targeting of individual shareholders' personal assets marks a dangerous escalation in the Bukele administration's long-standing effort to dismantle El Faro through administrative harassment.