Humanitarian George Clooney got three verbal warnings before he, his father, and several others were arrested Friday morning outside the Sudan embassy in Washington D.C.
The actor was taken away in handcuffs from a planned act of civil disobedience.
So, what was Clooney up to? He and others were protesting Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the country’s border region with newly independent South Sudan.
The protesters were gathered on the embassy’s private property, holding a sign which read: “Sudan: Stop Weapons of Mass Starvation.” Also arrested with Clooney and his father were U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (Dem.) of Virginia and NAACP President Ben Jealous.
Clooney’s rep explained: “They were protesting the violence committed by the government of Sudan on its own innocent men, women and children. They were demanding they allow humanitarian aid into the country before it becomes the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”
Clooney has said previously that we are facing genocide in that region if action is not taken. “This is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children,” Clooney told USA Today. “Stop raping them and stop starving them. That’s all we ask.”
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