Actor George Clooney was detained Friday morning during a protest in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
On Wednesday, Clooney testified before Congress about "a campaign of murder" under way in Sudan, where villagers run for the hills to hide from bombings on a daily basis.
"What you see is a constant drip of fear," Clooney said, a day after returning from a trip in which he and a small team of fellow activists managed to enter one of the most devastated areas, the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.
"We found children filled with shrapnel, including a 9-year-old boy who had both of his hands blown off," Clooney told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Clooney said the attacks are being orchestrated by Sudan's government, led by President Omar al-Bashir, government official Ahmad Harun and Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein - the same three men, he said, who previously orchestrated long-documented attacks in Darfur.
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You go George!
Is there ANY WAY we can get rid of all these horrible dictators around the World? How about just a bullet to each of their heads – sounds like a cheap way to go to me. If they are replaced by another one – another bullet.
Maybe they will get the idea.
@ jon Then they will be replaced by ever more clever dictators, establish secret services, and control world police through an unelected Centralized Intelligence Bureau. Sound familiar? Bradley Manning is being held in solitary without being charged. We have torture camps in the middle east and cuba. The federal government has the authority to arrest any citizen for any or no reason at all. If you want government corruption overreach and abuse, look right in your own backyard: this is why the world is full of dictators; because even a so-called free country like the US is addicted to leviathan-government.
You sound like a dictator!
You are so right. We need to take Clooney down!
NO – because the societies and coutries need to accept different principles as a whole society. Nothing will change in these countries as long as many of the citizens in these countries believe that might makes right instead of common rule through popular demand. The meanest and badest thug will always take power until most of the citizens in these countries are willing to stand up and overthrow their dictators.
man, gotta respect his persistence. most of us just kinda forgot about the Sudan when the national news media stopped reporting on it.
Why was he arrested again? For having an opinion?
That was my first thought as well.
His stock went up in my book.
Way to go, George! You have my 100% support!
Arrested for exercising his right of freedom of speech. Ok. Isn't this the USA???????
Is this the USA? No. Where have you been the past 12 years?
George Clooney just went up in my estimation of him. Well done for standing up for what you believe.
Thanks George. I'm sorry there is something so miserable in this world that you feel you have to get arrested. But, stand up for your beliefs. Your high profile will bring this autrocity to the public eye.
How long before the rest of the Ocean's 11 crew breaks George out of jail?
George c.......you're such a baller
such a baller
Being arrested for protesting?! I HIGHLY doubt he was being disrupted in ANY manner. Just another example of our freedoms as Americans disappearing before our eyes.
right there in Sudan, huh?
@Danna... Please read the article, he is in the US. Its the first sentence. "in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington."
Good for you George...awesome to see a few wealthy people using their money and power for something good...very rare in this country!! I have a whole new respect for you sir
Mr. Clooney Thank you for trying to make the world better.
Gotta love George Clooney!! And he's sssssoooooo dreamy!!!
This man just keeps getting better looking! I wish I age like that!