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Saudi Arabia's Executions Reached a Record in 2025 While Vision 2030 Sold Reform
Saudi Arabia executed at least 356 people in 2025 — a record on the counts kept by Reprieve, ESOHR, Amnesty International and AFP — and at least 116 to 27 July 2026. An audit of the annual series, the counts that diverge, the offence and nationality breakdown, and the legal frame.
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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.
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The Blood Price: 21,000 Dead Workers and the Moral Ledger of Vision 2030
An estimated 21,000 migrant workers have died on Vision 2030 projects since 2017. The kafala system, Western complicity, and FIFA 2034 reckoning.