Powerful free documentary on religious sex trafficking in Iraq
'Iraq's Secret Sex Trade' is an undercover investigation into the "pleasure marriage" abuse scam by Shia clerics.
In Iraq, holy men are pimps, abusing their religious power to sell girls and women into slavery they cannot escape.
Victims are unable to turn to their families for help for fear they’ll be killed to expunge the ‘sinful shame’ they’ve ‘caused’ their ‘righteous’ families.
This is religion at its worst, and journalism at its best. 'Iraq's Secret Sex Trade' is one of my favourite documentaries of 2023. And its free.
Here’s an earlier interview with journalist Nawal Al-Maghafi.