Richard Gere on selling guitars for the Tibetan cause

Talking to Sophie Raworth on The Andrew Marr Show, actor Richard Gere explained why money raised from selling his massive guitar collection went straight to the Tibetan human rights campaign.

Gere said everybody he met, on an individual level, sympathised with the Tibetan and Chinese people, both of whom were regularly put second to economic considerations.

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