A futuristic city planned by Mohammed bin Salman for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast as a showpiece of his reform plans is in crisis after police shot dead one of the project’s leading critics.

Abdul-Rahim al-Huwaiti had posted videos online saying that he was one of many people refusing to leave their properties to make way for the $500 billion Neom scheme, and that he fully expected to die as a result.

“Everyone who rejects being moved is being stormed,” he said in one of the videos. “Nine people have had houses stormed and been arrested and it’s going to be my turn soon. We have been ruled by kids like Mohammed bin Salman. Don’t be surprised if I am taken and accused of terrorism