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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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MOSCOW | Mon Mar 5, 2012 1:29pm EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny on Monday after a protest challenging Vladimir Putin's victory in a presidential election.

"Hello everyone from the police van," Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger, said on Twitter. At least one other protest leader was detained, witnesses at the scene said.

Riot police tried to disperse a group of protesters who remained on Moscow's Pushkin Square, the scene of dissident demonstrations in Soviet times, after a rally calling for new elections and political reforms.

Protest leaders said about 20,000 people attended the rally. Police said 14,000 people attended.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly and Alissa de Carbonnel, writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Timothy Heritage)
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