Hamad Al-As'ad

Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq's Secret Sex Trade

Patrick Wells

Nawal Al-Maghafi, Fares Al-Masawi

In this undercover investigation, Nawal al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq. Some Shia clerics are using a controversial practice called ‘pleasure marriage’ to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp them out.