Founder of myown2hands.co - an online craft school with healing powers. BAFTA and two time EMMY-winning documentary producer/director.
Joined May 2011
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1 Mar 2021
Excited to share my new project -
MYOWN2HANDS.CO. 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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Patrick Wells retweeted
1 Mar 2021
Excited to share my new project -
MYOWN2HANDS.CO. 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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Patrick Wells retweeted
12 Nov 2020
Highly Commended in the @realstoriesdocs Best Current Affairs Documentary category is
UNDERCOVER WITH THE CLERICS: IRAQ’S SECRET SEX TRADE
@BBCNawal @pjbwells
#GriersonAwards
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Patrick Wells retweeted
7 Nov 2020
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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Patrick Wells retweeted
22 Sep 2020
"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: to.pbs.org/2RBmY1M
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Patrick Wells retweeted
22 Sep 2020
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: to.pbs.org/2RBmY1M
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8 Oct 2019
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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Patrick Wells retweeted
7 Oct 2019
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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Patrick Wells retweeted
7 Oct 2019
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 theguardian.com/world/2019/o…
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Patrick Wells retweeted
5 Oct 2019
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!
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latest…
with-the-clerics bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latest…
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Patrick Wells retweeted
4 Oct 2019
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. bbc.co.uk/news/extra/iuKTEGj…
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4 Oct 2019
Well spoken #iraqssextrade
4 Oct 2019
‘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.
bbc.in/2M9fkso
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Patrick Wells retweeted
4 Oct 2019
Incredibly brave & courageous journalism by my colleagues @BBCNawal @garnsey_monica @PJBWells @christophersmtv @BBCArabic - Iraq's Secret Sex Trade exposed. Watch the full documentary here - bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0… #Iraq
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Patrick Wells retweeted
3 Oct 2019
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
bbc.in/2M9fkso
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Patrick Wells retweeted
4 Oct 2019
Painstaking work went into this investigation by @BBCNawal & team on abuse facilitated and condoned by some Shia clerics in Iraq bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0…
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Patrick Wells retweeted
3 Oct 2019
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 bbc.com/arabic/middleeast-49…
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Patrick Wells retweeted
3 Oct 2019
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 bbc.com/arabic/middleeast-49…
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Patrick Wells retweeted
3 Oct 2019
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
bbc.in/2LJggVd
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27 Sep 2019
We are screening our new film #Undercoverwiththeclerics at the Frontline Club on Wednesday the 2nd of October at 7pm.
#iraqssecretsextrade
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