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A documentary released last month explored the latest updates on The Line project in Neom. Rumours say it has been scaled back from 105 miles to 1.5 miles. And a documentary aired on Sunday revealed that more than 21,000 workers have died in just eight years since the project was launched.
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The Line is a 105-mile (170-kilometre) long, linear smart city being built in Neom, Saudi Arabia. The city is designed to be a mirrored architectural masterpiece standing 500 meters tall and 200 meters wide. The project, launched as part of Saudi Vision 2030, aims to transform the country into a global tourism hub.
The Line is designed to be a car-free city, with all transportation systems integrated into a single, efficient network. The city will be powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including solar, wind and hydrogen-based power generation. And it features embedded smart technologies, with services continually optimised by artificial intelligence (“AI”) to ensure efficient use of resources and minimise environmental impact.
Not only is it humiliating for Saudi Arabia that the 105-mile-long £1 trillion flagship project has been reduced to 1.5 miles but it holds a dirty secret. The construction of it has faced human rights concerns, including allegations of forced displacement of local tribes, and exploitation and death of migrant workers.
On 27 October, ITVX aired a documentary ‘Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia’ made by a female journalist who went undercover to investigate what life is really like in Saudi Arabia, an increasingly autocratic state.
According to the documentary, over 21,000 workers have died since 2016, with many more suffering from poor working conditions, exploitation and human rights violations. The statistics are staggering, with Nepalese workers alone reporting over 650 unexplained deaths.
The documentary exposes the brutal reality of working conditions in NEOM, including 16-hour days, exceeding Saudi law’s 60-hour weekly limit, workers being forced to work without proper rest, leading to mental fatigue and physical torment, lack of food and sleep resulting in accidents and illnesses, and migrant workers being treated like “trapped slaves” and “beggars.”
It also highlights the systematic exploitation of migrant workers, including missed payments, with some workers going months without receiving wages, and lack of access to healthcare, with workers being forced to pay exorbitant fees for medical treatment.
Reporting on ITVX’s documentary, Middle East Eye quoted Nicholas McGeehan, director at the UK-based human rights organisation FairSquare, as saying that the working hours of the labourers at The Line were “way beyond what the international minimum standards permit.”
“The reality is that workers all over Saudi Arabia are subject to deeply abusive and dangerous exploitation. The abuses are systematically happening across the country,” McGeehan said.
To access ITVX you are required to register with a postcode, unless you live in the UK you may not be able to watch its documentary. However, in September DeCode released the reportage below giving an update on The Line. The report discusses the human rights abuses relating to the forced displacement of local tribes with the use of lethal force and arrest for anyone who resisted or criticised the project online. It also discussed the financing of the project, with some financiers pulling out after the forced displacement of people came to light, and The Line’s progress, or lack of progress.
Featured image: A promotional image of Saudi Arabia’s Neom shows the design plan for the parallel structures, known collectively as the Line. Source: NEOM The Line
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It sounds sensible to start with a short length of a new development before embarking on the whole thing in one go. Surely most projects would like to test out the design before creating a massive finished object?
This was the beginning of my comments but I was interrupted and posted it by mistake. Kindly read my comments below. Many thanks.
The use and abuse of workers in this country is what awaits us all if this crap will be globally implemented.
And I can really envision the PR slogan for their imagen mass tourism. “Come and visit the smart city prison line and don’t forget your burka or your head will be chopped off”.
Prison.
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My 1st comment posted below this was the introduction – I was disturbed – this is the subject matter I wanted to address;
The abuse and exploitation of migrant workers is appalling and extreme. In a time of ‘progress’ it seems impossible to think that incredibly advanced and and pioneering idea which has caught the attention of the world, is the very place where most dreadful cruelty against migrant workers is being carried out. Not only that, there is forced displacement of ancient tribes. These terrible issues are the truth about ‘The Line’. They constitute a story of horrific abuses of human rights. This is a place where human suffering is horrendous. Yet Neom is supposed to be on our lips with wonderment and massive excitement as we watch with expectation for this next wonder of the world to be revealed.
So much for a ‘wonder of the world’! More like the shame and disgrace of Saudi Arabia. This is a place revealing the worst kind of treatment of migrant workers. It might as well be in Biblical times. There is no progress in the Bosses’ attitudes to the Workers. They work without pay, sleep or food and a high number die. This is 21st century slavery and Saudi Arabia is boasting its latest achievement while not progressing a day beyond Cave Man’s values regarding attitudes towards Human Rights.
The Migrant Workers in Neom are dying in terrible conditions. The Saudi bosses are treating it as normal.
Surely there must be something that the rest of the world can do.
The number of deaths is horrific. It is worse than fighting in a war.
Saudi Arabia cannot expect to be regarded with anything but disgust for their heartless human rights abuses.
Nobody will be impressed by ‘The Line’. It stands for horror, cruelty, the unnecessary and brutal deaths of thousands. Ruthlessly treated as slaves working 16 hours a day and in unbearable conditions under a callous regime with no humanity in its soul. The Line will always be a monument to Saudi Arabia’s imperious and utterly disgusting inhumanity and brutality.
With the knowledge of the cruelty and human rights abuses, I cannot imagine anybody wanting to align themselves with this project or to go there at any time after its completion.
The historic truth will always see it as a grave-yard haunted by the ghosts of slaves who were made to suffer and die through horrendous cruelty and the true home of proud tribes who were forcibly displaced. For they shall ever haunt the flashy modernisms of the artifices around ‘The Line’.
Hi Truth Should Not Hurt, well said!!
Many thanks Rhoda. Your words mean a lot.
Oh the vanity of rich men. The crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is the typical tyrannical brutal leader of a non free country. They have no idea what it’s like to work to survive and look at those who do as disposable serfs. God will deal with these wicked leaders that have been given everything in life and yet used it for evil. Oh foolish man.
Hmmm, its being change from The Line to The Dot.
Patrick Boyle gives an entertaining overview of this doomed project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg
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Anything with centralized power is about enslavement and gets rid of competition and companies and then people.
Same with Healthcare. Healthcare is “DEATH” Care.
I have warned people about these Smart Cities, along with Agenda 2030 and transhumanism for several years. They seem to be puzzled of what I’m talking about. I wonder how many actually took the time to research the topics? What we are dealing with are too many dumb, deaf, crippled and blind no to low info voters. Apathy, ignorance and indifference are common place.
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