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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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Alexis Tsipras, head of Greece's radical left SYRIZA party, attends a pre-election rally at Elefsina suburb, west of Athens June 6, 2012. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis

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ROME | Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:57am EDT

ROME (Reuters) - The head of Greece's leftist SYRIZA party pledged on Tuesday to introduce a progressive corporate tax scale that would increase tax for high-earning businesses but dismissed fears that investment could dry up if he came to power after the June 17 election.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said that investment relied more on a stable tax system than on the tax rate.

Greece currently has a 20 percent corporate tax rate for large listed companies.

(Reporting By Harry Papachristou and Renee Maltezou)
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