Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement

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Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement

A Saudi court sentenced three members of the Howeitat, a tribe forcibly ejected to make way for the $500 bn Neom megacity, to death earlier this month for resisting displacement, a UK-based rights group has reported.

Shadli al-Huweiti is the brother of Abdul Rahim al-Howeiti, a 43-year-old Tabuk resident who was shot dead by Saudi special forces in April 2020 after protesting the government's eviction orders, including in videos he regularly posted to YouTube.

Neom: Yet-to-be-built Saudi resort chosen to host 2029 Asian Winter Games Read More » Two other Howeitat members - Abdulilah al-Howeiti and Abdullah Dukhail al-Howeiti - were given 50-year prison terms and 50-year travel bans in August for supporting their family's refusal to be evicted from their homes in the kingdom's Tabuk province.

They were given 34 years and 45 years respectively over tweets critical of the Saudi government.

Adel al-Saeed, vice president of the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights said in a series of tweets that the new death sentences reveal how the penalty is being used "in an unprecedented way to include all forms of objection to government decisions".

Middle East Eye has asked the Saudi government for comment.