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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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AMMAN | Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:06pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - A border crossing between Syria and Turkey at Jarablus fell into rebel hands on Thursday after security forces pulled out, a day after the killing of three of President Bashar al-Assad's senior officials, activists said.

Rebels now control the border town of Jarablus, site of the crossing, 400 (240 miles) northwest of Damascus, they said, adding that military and intelligence personnel have also pulled out from the nearby border town of Ain al-Arab, inhabited by members of Syria's Kurdish minority.

(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut)
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