{"id":6100,"date":"2025-07-29T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:58:08","slug":"adala-uk-calls-on-the-times-to-honour-un-recognition-of-polisario-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Adala UK Calls on\u00a0The Times\u00a0to Honour UN Recognition of Polisario Front"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adala UK has <a href=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-the-Time.pdf\"><strong>formally written<\/strong><\/a> to the editor of\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0to express serious concerns over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/3bd70ab6-dc09-4e0b-b59b-b9737a391ad8?shareToken=77fd7af979fba8222020f088aba25eb7\">article published on\u00a0<strong>20 February 2025<\/strong><\/a>, which misrepresented key facts about the Western Sahara conflict and the status of the\u00a0<strong>Polisario Front<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article, which focused on the controversy surrounding a film shoot in Dakhla, referred to the Polisario Front as a \u201cseparatist group\u201d and inaccurately claimed that it had unilaterally abandoned a ceasefire in 2020. It also suggested that the UK supports Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over Western Sahara \u2014 a position the UK government has explicitly denied in recent correspondence with Adala UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our letter, we highlight the&nbsp;<strong>UN\u2019s recognition of the Polisario as the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>illegality of Morocco\u2019s occupation<\/strong>, and the&nbsp;<strong>UK\u2019s continued support for a UN-led process towards Sahrawi self-determination<\/strong>. We also requested a&nbsp;<strong>right of reply<\/strong>&nbsp;for Adala UK, the Polisario Front, or an independent Sahrawi voice to ensure balanced coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adala UK calls on&nbsp;<em>The Times<\/em>&nbsp;to uphold journalistic standards and correct the inaccuracies presented in the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-the-Time.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-the-Time.pdf\">https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-the-Time.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adala UK has formally written to the editor of\u00a0The Times\u00a0to express serious concerns over an article published on\u00a020 February 2025, which misrepresented key facts about the Western Sahara conflict and the status of the\u00a0Polisario Front. The article, which focused on the controversy surrounding a film shoot in Dakhla, referred to the Polisario Front as a \u201cseparatist group\u201d and inaccurately claimed that it had unilaterally abandoned a ceasefire in 2020. It also suggested that the UK supports Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over Western Sahara \u2014 a position the UK government has explicitly denied in recent correspondence with Adala UK. In our letter, we highlight the&nbsp;UN\u2019s recognition of the Polisario as the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people, the&nbsp;illegality of Morocco\u2019s occupation, and the&nbsp;UK\u2019s continued support for a UN-led process towards Sahrawi self-determination. We also requested a&nbsp;right of reply&nbsp;for Adala UK, the Polisario Front, or an independent Sahrawi voice to ensure balanced coverage. Adala UK calls on&nbsp;The Times&nbsp;to uphold journalistic standards and correct the inaccuracies presented in the article. Read the full letter here: https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Letter-to-the-Time.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}