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Ban the exploitative & now life threatening documentaries sex drugs & murder

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The documentaries sex drugs & murder, exploitated vulnerable sex workers with money to be filmed for a bias degrading and now detrimental documentary for the BBC.
Airing of this programme, sex workers have now been put in life threatening positions from the general public and it needs to be banned
The BBC refused to cooperate with outreach organisations at the time of filming People within the doc can no longer see their children, legal proceedings have now started due to what was captured on the screen & Holbeck has become a tourist site, many women aren’t sticking to the managed zone. The result of that is online vigilante groups have been formed putting SW in danger
The police in leeds are trying so hard to improve sex worker safety yet this is detrimental to the safety of others

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.

You can find out how to make a complaint here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

Timeline

14 Feb 2018 Petition opened for signatures
19 Feb 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 19 Feb 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.