NEWS

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, civil rights leader Ben Jealous, Martin Luther King III and Tom Andrews, president of United To End Genocide 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.  They blame the government of Sudan for attacks that have killed civilians there.
 "When he speaks, people listen,” Niemat Ahmadi, a Sundan-born spokesman for United To End Genocide, said of Mr Clooney. “He is much loved in the US and is our number one advocate. "
THE TELEGRAPH, 17 March 2012