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Exposing Iraq’s pleasure marriage clerics
The clerics who profit from exploiting Iraq’s vulnerable women: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic investigates.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic’s Nawal Al-Maghafi takes us undercover at two of Iraq’s holiest sites to reveal how some clerics are sexually exploiting children and young women. They’re using a controversial religious practice called 'pleasure marriage', illegal under Iraqi law, to supply women for sex.
Photo: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic's Nawal Al-Maghafi in Baghdad
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