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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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HELSINKI | Sat Jun 9, 2012 3:30pm EDT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will demand collateral from Spain if the country receives aid through temporary rescue mechanism EFSF, Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen said, according to media reports.

"It is still open whether the loan will be granted through temporary mechanism, when Finland will need collateral as was written in the government programme, or if it will be granted through permanent mechanism," Urpilainen told MTV3 television news.

Spain will make a formal request for aid from its euro zone partners "shortly" and will receive up to 100 billion euros once that request is made, euro zone finance ministers said in a statement on Saturday.

Urpilainen added there was a risk of a Europe wide crisis similar to the financial crisis that followed Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008.

(Reporting by Terhi Kinnunen)
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