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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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NAIROBI | Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:39pm EST

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two loud blasts in quick succession injured a number of people near a mosque in the Somali-dominated Eastleigh area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, local media said.

The area has been the scene of numerous attacks suspected to be the work of Somali Islamist groups who object to Kenya's armed incursion into neighboring Somalia.

(Reporting by James Macharia; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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