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A plainclothes policeman catches a woman during a police crackdown on prostitution in Quanzhou, Fujian province, October 29, 2011. China should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on May 14, 2013. The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines and arbitrary detentions of up to two years, as well as a failure to investigate crimes against sex workers by clients, bosses and state agents, according to the report. Prostitution is not permitted under Chinese law, although the industry has boomed since the country launched economic reforms in 1978. REUTERS/Stringer

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Gaddafi says air force bombed only military sites: ABC

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses his supporters in Tripoli's Green Square in this still image taken from video broadcast on February 25, 2011. REUTERS/Libya TV via Reuters TV

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses his supporters in Tripoli's Green Square in this still image taken from video broadcast on February 25, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Libya TV via Reuters TV

WASHINGTON | Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:17pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday denied using his air force to attack protesters but said planes had bombed military sites and ammunition depots, ABC television network reported.

Gaddafi, interviewed by ABC's Christiane Amanpour in a restaurant on a coastal road on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast, also invited the United Nations to conduct a "fact-finding" tour of the North African country.

(Reporting by Ross Colvin: Editing by Jackie Frank)
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