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George Clooney Arrest

March 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on George Clooney Arrest 

George Clooney Arrest, Hollywood movie star George Clooney was arrested at Sudan’s embassy in Washington on Friday during a protest against an escalating emergency as the country blocks humanitarian aid from reaching a volatile border region where hundreds of thousands of people are short of food.

Clooney, his father Nick and other anti-Sudan activists ignored three police warnings to leave the embassy grounds and were led away to a Secret Service van in handcuffs, a Reuters journalist covering the demonstration said.

“We need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” Clooney told reporters just before his arrest.

“The second thing we are here to ask is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. Stop raping them and stop starving them. That’s all we ask.”

Clooney, who on Wednesday was a guest at the White House banquet in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, and several others were expected to post bail and walk free later on Friday, a spokesman for the protest organizers said.

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