The megaproject of ‘The Line‘ hides a truth that residents of the area where it is being built denounce. An activist from Saudi Arabia denounces in several videos that the authorities of his country were trying to expel him and his neighbors from his houses, all inhabitants of the place where they intend to build the futuristic megacity.

The head of Amnesty International Spain for Europe and the Middle East, Carlos de las Heras, assures that it is “a strategy that comes from the hand of the crown prince of Mohammed Bin Salman”, who seeks to “depend less and less on oil and diversify investments”: “They try to offer that image of modernity, of openness, while The reality within the country is very different“.

However, the reality that the project is going through is very different, still far from the 170 kilometers that are planned to be built. The architect and popularizer Luis Lope de Toledo says that, even if it is completed, will be “very far from those initial pretensions“What’s more, it could take centuries to build it as planned.

For the moment, at least 6,000 peopleand They have arrested another 50several of them being sentenced to death, penalties that Saudi Arabia uses against any type of dissidence.