Patrick Wells
@PJBWells
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Founder of https://t.co/Vd5OI48KMR - an online craft school with healing powers. BAFTA and two time EMMY-winning documentary producer/director.
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Joined May 2011
Excited to share my new project - https://t.co/BhoPIoFleY. We combine the greatest artisans with BAFTA and EMMY-winning filmmakers to produce the best craft courses on the web. Learning to do something with your hands is one of the best ways to stay sane. Please share!
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Excited to share my new project - https://t.co/BhoPIoFleY. We combine the greatest artisans with BAFTA and EMMY-winning filmmakers to produce the best craft courses on the web. Learning to do something with your hands is one of the best ways to stay sane. Please share!
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Highly Commended in the @realstoriesdocs Best Current Affairs Documentary category is UNDERCOVER WITH THE CLERICS: IRAQ’S SECRET SEX TRADE @BBCNawal @pjbwells
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Thrilled our film Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade is nominated for two @BBCNews Awards - Best Investigation and Best Original Journalism.. Well done to this awesome team, @MaisBayaa, @PJBWells, @garnsey_monica, @GARYBEELDERS & @christophersmtv.. and our incredible undercover reporter!
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"Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade" won a second Emmy for Best Story in a Newsmagazine. Congratulations once again to @BBCNawal, @PJBWells & @BBCArabic! Watch the Emmy-winning doc:
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Watch FRONTLINE's documentary on how some clerics in Iraq are abusing an ancient Islamic marriage practice to exploit women and girls.
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Delighted for @BBCNawal and @PJBWells on their @newsemmys win for "Iraq's Secret Sex Trade." Congratulations to our producing partners at @BBCArabic. Watch the doc here:
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Watch FRONTLINE's documentary on how some clerics in Iraq are abusing an ancient Islamic marriage practice to exploit women and girls.
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We’ve received some criticism that our film is islamophobic. It isn’t -It is against the grooming &pimping of v poor women&children by clerics working next to important shrines.Focus should be on ending these abuses-not blaming the messenger #iraqssextrade #iraq #pleasuremarriage
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@Ella_7991 @UKChange They’re bringing awareness to children being sexually abused. In what way is that wrong?? Although I agree they should have never associated it with Karbala. How are you more pressed about how it’s making Shias look than the fact little children are being sexually abused??
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This is a triggering reminder that no community is immune from sexual exploitation. May God protect us and bring justice upon those who use His beautiful religion to harm others: In Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitution
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BBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girls
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BBC series by Nawal Al Nawal Al-Maghafi. She invited me to comment about the practices of the clerics in facilitating "pleasure marriages". Well done Nawal! https://t.co/K7dMLDrio2 with-the-clerics
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Clerics in Iraq are selling young girls for sex, a BBC investigation has found. Some Shia clerics are using a practice called 'pleasure marriage' to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp...
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@BBCNawal @MaisBayaa @PJBWells @garnsey_monica @BBCArabicDocs this was so difficult to watch but such an important story to expose. Our communities need to know and acknowledge these things are happening so that we can address them. Now no one can deny this dark reality. Thank you.
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On today’s programme: A secret world of sexual exploitation of children by some of Iraq’s religious elite is exposed. @BBCArabic finds some are being groomed through ‘pleasure marriages’. More from 10.
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How the ancient ritual of 'muta'a marriage' is being brutally misused to exploit vulnerable young women in Iraq.
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Well spoken #iraqssextrade
‘It’s pleasure for an hour for the man, but a lifetime of misery for the victim’ Yanar Mohammed shelters survivors of sexual violence. Girls are being pimped by Iraqi Muslim Shia clerics through “pleasure marriages,” @BBCArabic investigation finds. https://t.co/Y8Ba98NC7U
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Incredibly brave & courageous journalism by my colleagues @BBCNawal @garnsey_monica @PJBWells @christophersmtv @BBCArabic - Iraq's Secret Sex Trade exposed. Watch the full documentary here - https://t.co/K0ARvseeyw
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Nawal al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq.
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Girls as young as 12 are being pimped by Iraqi Muslim Shia clerics through “pleasure marriages” A @BBCArabic investigation found vulnerable women exploited by the controversial practice which allows a man to pay for a temporary wife https://t.co/Hs7Zh7Jd7Q
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Painstaking work went into this investigation by @BBCNawal & team on abuse facilitated and condoned by some Shia clerics in Iraq
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Nawal al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq.
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Superb work @BBCNawal @BBCArabic on underage girls used in temporary "pleasure marriages" condoned & exploited by some Muslims clerics in #Iraq. 1 is filmed saying, "You can caress her, lie on her, touch her body & breasts." #IraqsSexTrade
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Another cleric is filmed saying girls as young as 9 can be married in this way: "You must not enter her, but you can do everything else." Such "pleasure marriages" are illegal in #Iraq but are being exploited by religious figures with power #IraqsSexTrade
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Clerics in Iraq are selling vulnerable young girls and women for sex, a @BBCArabic investigation has found. Undercover With The Clerics - Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now on @BBCiPlayer
https://t.co/BNDcwIN0Bq
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Clerics in Iraq are selling young girls for sex, a BBC investigation has found. Some Shia clerics are using a practice called 'pleasure marriage' to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp...
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