China's Sex Workers Suffer Attacks, Abuse

China's estimated six million sex workers are routinely subjected to rights violations and physical assault, sometimes at the hands of law enforcement agencies, rights advocates and sex workers said on Tuesday. "As a group living in a grey area of the law, they have little hope of help or redress in the face of violence, and sometimes the violence comes from law enforcement officials themselves," said gender studies scholar Lu Pin, who edits the online newspaper "Women's Voice." Read more