Hollywood actor George Clooney has been arrested, in a further attempt to highlight the plight of Sudan. George was protesting in front of the Sudanese Embassy – with his father – when he was cuffed and taken into police custody.
The Telegraph had this to say:
George Clooney has been arrested and handcuffed during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
Clooney and other protesters, including his father Nick, Virginia congressman Jim Moran, and civil rights leader Ben Jealous, were placed in the back of a US Secret Service van and taken away.
The group of activists had been given three verbal warnings not to cross a police line as they gathered outside the embassy. Others at the prostest included Martin Luther King III. They blame the government of Sudan for attacks that have killed civilians there.
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