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Sex workers slam Su's crackdown
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Sex workers said that they were being unfairly targeted as part of Premier Su Tseng-chang's politically inspired promise to improve social order
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA
Thursday, Sep 07, 2006, Page 2
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Members of the Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters protest in front of the Executive Yuan yesterday. The woman in front is holding a picture of Kuan Hsiu-chin, a prostitute who killed herself.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Members and supporters of a sex workers' interest group lodged a protest at the Executive Yuan yesterday, saying that law enforcement officers were cracking down on the sex industry so that they could claim to be improving social order.
Scores of members and friends of the Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters (COSWAS) took to the streets to accuse police of compromising the interests of sex service workers to live up to Premier Su Tseng-chang's (蘇貞昌) vow made in March to improve social order within six months.
The protesters said many former sex workers had lost their jobs and that two had killed themselves in desperation since former Taipei mayor Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) initiated steps to weed out the sex trade in 1998.
Su's vow had served only to rub salt into the sex workers' wounds, they argued.
COSWAS made three appeals to the Executive Yuan: that the administration amend Article 80 of the Social Order Law (社會秩序維護法) so that sex workers will not be punished for engaging in the trade; that the Executive Yuan hire all unemployed former sex workers; and that all Cabinet members pay condolences at a funeral for Kuan Hsiu-chin (官秀琴), a former licensed prostitute who jumped to her death recently as a result of her financial difficulties.
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