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Actor George Clooney Cuffed in Humanitarian Protest

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Published on Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:20
Written by Janet Walker
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Academy Award winner George Clooney was arrested this week for civil disobedience during a planned protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.

Clooney, along with his father, Nick Clooney, and Virginia Representative Jim Moran, were among the handful of religious and political leaders handcuffed and taken into custody during the peaceful and orderly demonstration.

According to all available sources, Clooney spent three hours behind bars and was released after posting bond. The evening before his arrest he attended a White House State Dinner honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron .

Clooney and House of Representatives members Al Green, Jim McGovern, John Oliver along with Martin Luther King III and NAACP President Ben Jealous were participating in the planned demonstration in order to draw awareness to the Sudanese government’s treatment of their citizens and demanding the Sudanese government allow humanitarian aid into the country before it becomes the largest modern humanitarian crisis in the world. Recent reports from the Sudan region have reveled policies of Sudan President Omar Al Bashir that include a complete disregard of the human condition, starvation, rape and mass and indiscriminate violence against their citizens.

Clooney recently received his second Academy Award nomination for his role in The Decedents. His first nomination for Syriana earned him an OSCAR for Best Supporting Actor. He is a known activist and founder of the Satellite Sentinel Project, an organization deigned to monitor, through satellite imagery, activities in the Sudan region.

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