George Clooney was today taken away in handcuffs after being arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
The 50-year-old actor, his father Nick and a number of other protesters had been given three verbal warnings by police not to cross a police line outside the embassy before being taken into custody.
They had accused Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the county's border region with South Sudan.
Others protestors, including Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia and NAACP President Ben Jealous, were also arrested.
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They were all handcuffed and placed into a U.S. Secret Service van.
Clooney said that he hopes to draw more attention to the issue and is impressed with President Barack Obama's personal engagement on it.
The actor also said that if action is not taken in the next three to four months ‘we're going to have a real humanitarian disaster.’
Clooney was joined by his father, Nick, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, among others, as he walked to the protest site.
The group held a sign that read: ‘Sudan: Stop Weapons of Mass Starvation.’
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