Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In Hong Kong, a proposed change to the judicial system has sparked massive protests.

Around the world, there are concerns about how justice is served.

In many countries, putting prison inmates in solitary confinement is seen as an unnecessary and distressing punishment.

But its use is still widespread in America.

We speak to a death row inmate in Texas

who has spent half his life in solitary.

And the justice system in Iraq leaves much to be desired,

so many people turn to a much older means of resolving disputes,

letting tribal leaders known as shakes do the negotiating.

But what if you don't have a tribe or know its leader?

Don't worry, you can rent a shake.

Just make sure it's a real one.

First up, though.

Over the weekend, people in Hong Kong staged one of the largest public protests since the territory was handed back to China in 1997.

The disquiet isn't over. More demonstrations are planned for tomorrow.

The protesters are railing against legislation that they say

blurs the line further between Hong Kong's notionally independent government

and influence from officials in mainland China.

On Sunday, huge crowds of people gathered in Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island

and marched through the city

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