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Nicholas McGeehan, director at the UK-based human rights organisation FairSquare, said 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.

Migrant workers make up three quarters of Saudi Arabia's workforce and are critical for the Vision 2030 projects.

Based on data released in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, the film reports that 21,000 foreign workers from the three countries have died since Vision 2030 was launched eight years ago in 2016.

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

What a surprise!!!?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Imagine being worked to death for a Ponzi scheme.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's almost like they set a bunch of absurdly unrealistic deadlines and now cannot figure out how to meet them

[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That may be part of it, but Saudi Arabia also has a long track record of being incredibly abusive and generally just not giving a shit about worker's rights.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, absolutely. I would even say that description of their attitude towards workers rights is an understatement. I'm just talking about their lofty goals for the project and how even with the best engineers and best workforce in the world their stated timelines are physically impossible

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A cult that deems women as absolute property does consider non cult-members as property (AKA slaves) too? I'm so shocked and suprised.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first part is false and the latter ignores that it is a class issue as the migrant workers can be Muslim.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Oh sorry, my bad. Islam is known for its strong women's rights. Class issue? So even more hipocrite than just abusing infidels? Next you probably say IS weren't muslim because they also kill muslims

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

So this is why Middle East Eye is blocked and not because of their pro-Palestinian posts.

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Shocked I tell you....shocked!

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

21000 people sounds unbelievable. Are these film makers credible? 21000 people! I feel like you could say almost anything about the working conditions on these projects and I'd believe it at face value, but 21000!?