In an article entitled "Algeria and the polisario are trying to mislead the international community by exploiting the issue of human rights in the Moroccan Sahara", the daily stressed that in the letter addressed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the presidents of the regions Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Sidi Hamdi Oued Errachid and Yenja El Khattat, expressed their categorical rejection of the allegations conveyed by Algeria and the "polisario" on the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara, denouncing the propaganda conducted by Algeria and the "polisario" to try to deprive the populations of both regions of the benefits of development.

The two officials stressed that Algeria must be questioned on its policy of diversion and disinformation aimed at diverting attention from the tragedy of the people held against their will in Tindouf, noted the paper, adding that the letter sent by the presidents of the two regions stems from their perfect knowledge of the situation in their constituencies, because of their responsibilities and in view of the democratic legitimacy and electoral representativeness in the two regions, which belong to the Moroccan Sahara.

The presidents of the two regions also underlined in their letter that the UN official is well aware that the Moroccan Sahara is the subject of a decades-old conflict, which Algeria is trying to prolong over time, as the main stakeholder manipulating the "polisario" to divert and mislead international public opinion through the exploitation of the human rights issue for purely political purposes, the paper wrote.

The presidents of the regions Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab recalled, in this regard, that their representative status and their Sahrawi membership, in addition to the long years spent in the Tindouf camps, where they held several positions in the "polisario" before returning to Morocco, give them the legitimacy to draw attention to the designs of this immoral exploitation of human rights and the UN bodies in charge of this issue by Algeria and the "polisario", the publication pointed out.

The two officials noted, the newspaper added, that this disinformation strategy, which targets the Kingdom of Morocco, is based on the manipulation of some young people who have no support among the local Saharawi population in order to create tensions deliberately and try to give them an excessive dimension through separatist propaganda outlets and make people believe in violations and imaginary events of human rights in order to mislead international opinion and attract its attention, specifying that the local population enjoys real protection through constitutional guarantees and a national legal and institutional framework in accordance with the Kingdom's international commitments.