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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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SRINAGAR, India | Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:34am EDT

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Five Indian paramilitary personnel were killed and five were wounded on Wednesday in an attack by militants on a camp in the outskirts of the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, police said.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Manoj Pandita told Reuters that two of the militants were killed in the gunfight that broke out after the assault on the base outside the city of Srinagar, which has been under curfew for weeks after violent protests.

Pandita said it was not known how many militants were involved in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, which was launched at around 10:30 a.m. (0500 GMT) and was still continuing more than an hour later

(Reporting by Fayaz Bukhari; Writing by John Chalmers)
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