This week marks one year since white supremacists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, in the deadly “Unite the Right” rally to protest the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park.
Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who’s in power.
On 19 July, Tashi’s lawyers confirmed that an appeal had been submitted to Qinghai High Court. This appeal could be heard any time. Previously, Tashi’s lawyers had met him in prison and confirmed that he is in good health and determined to fight his five year prison sentence.