Clooney, father of Nicholas and other anti-Sudan activists ignored three warnings to leave the police and taken to the base of the Embassy in plastic handcuffs while waiting van in the form of the Secret Service, Reuters reporter covering the event said.
"We need humanitarian assistance provided in the Sudan, before to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world," George Clooney told reporters shortly before his arrest.
"Second, we are here to ask for the government in Khartoum to stop accidentally killed his innocent men, women and children. Stop rape them and let them starve to death. This is all we ask."
Clooney, who on Wednesday was a guest at the White House banquet in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, and some others posted bail and went to no later than Friday.
"You never know when you do something ... We hope this will help," Clooney told reporters after his release, adding that the arrest was his first, and "I hope that this is my last."
Activists have drawn parallels between the current crisis in Sudan, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile provinces and violence for nearly a decade ago in the western region of Darfur, where Khartoum has attracted international condemnation by removing the violent uprising in the conflict, which killed the UN estimates that nearly 300,000 people.
U.S. CONCERN
The United States has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating conditions in the border areas, where Sudanese troops fighting insurgents in line with its newly independent neighbors south of Sudan.
Clooney, who recently visited the region, to the Senate hearing this week that Sudanese troops were to start the repeated attacks on unarmed civilians and help prevent access to areas where U.S. officials say that more than 250,000 people facing severe food shortages .
Clooney, a longtime critic of the government in Khartoum celebrity, which was expected to provoke the police to arrest.
Among those arrested on Friday included several members of Congress, the son of slain U.S. civil rights hero Martin Luther King and John Prendergast, co-founder of the project and sufficiently experienced defender of human rights, the organizers of this event.
Tom Andrews, president of the United to end the genocide, another group involved in the protest, said that the U.S. government should increase the heat on Khartoum to end the violence and allow humanitarian access.
"This is unacceptable and inexcusable, that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - International Criminal Tribunal, wanted for war crimes and genocide - get away with shelling, starvation and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in Sudan's Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile," Andrews , who was also arrested, said in a statement.
Sudanese Embassy in Washington, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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