The Howeitat: How Saudi Arabia Dismantled a Tribe to Build a City That Doesn't Exist
20,000 people displaced from ancestral lands. Homes destroyed. Electricity cut. Elders bribed. A propaganda campaign manufactured. The forensic account of how Saudi Arabia dismantled the Howeitat tribe to clear land for a megacity that was never built.
The Human Ledger: Death Sentences, Disappeared Workers, and the True Cost of Building NEOM
21,000 workers dead. Death sentences for refusing eviction. 100,000 labourers missing. The forensic account of what NEOM cost the people who built it and the people who lived where it was built.
The Killing of Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti: The Man Who Filmed His Own Death to Stop NEOM
On 13 April 2020, Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti posted a video from his roof in al-Khuraybah. He filmed the Saudi security forces surrounding his home. He predicted they would plant weapons. Hours later, they shot him dead. This is the full reconstruction.
The Sentences: Death Penalties, 50-Year Terms, and Saudi Arabia's Judicial War on NEOM's Critics
Five men sentenced to death. Two given 50-year prison terms. A 19-year-old student jailed for 20 years for mourning his uncle on Twitter. The complete record of Saudi Arabia's judicial campaign against the Howeitat tribe.