George Clooney was released from police custody Friday afternoon after paying a $100 fine. Earlier in the day, Clooney, his father and current and former members of congress were arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C.

Authorities cautioned the group three times not to cross a police line, but Clooney and the group did not heed the warnings. Also arrested were Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.), Rep. John Olver (D-Mass.), Rep. Al Green (D-Tx.) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine), NAACP president Ben Jealous, Martin Luther King III and actor Dick Gregory.

Though they caused hysteria on Twitter and other social networks, the arrests were not widely anticipated. Before his arrest, Clooney told The Huffington Post that he hoped shedding light on the abuses of the Sudanese government would pressure the country's president into allowing humanitarian aid into beleaguered regions of the nation.

"The goal for today is the same goal its been all along and will continue to be and not be accomplished today or anytime in the near future," Clooney said. "But it's a job that we have to continually do which is raise attention; protest the idea of a government attacking and killing its own innocent men, women and children and allowing aid to get in now because in the next few months it could be the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world and thats the important thing."

Though Ann Curry quoted Clooney as saying being arrested was "a humiliating thing," he was able to keep a light view of his time in jail.

"It was really rough, you can imagine," the actor and activist joked to reporters after being released. "Have you ever been in a cell with these guys?"

For more on the developments, including HuffPost's live blog of the morning's events, read our original story.

当地时间3月16日，乔治·克鲁尼在华盛顿被捕，起因是他参与了反对苏丹种族冲突的人道主义示威活动。

这次示威活动中，克鲁尼是组织者之一，这次活动的目的是抗议苏丹政府对人民施加暴行，以及该政府阻挠并封锁食品援助进入该国的行为。克鲁尼表示他们希望苏丹政府停止在首都喀土穆的暴行。据了解，克鲁尼一直对苏丹的政治问题十分关心，早在去年1月，他就曾投票支持南苏丹独立，他还曾亲赴苏丹，并将那里的见闻告诉了奥巴马总统和国务卿希拉里·克林顿，希望能促使美国政府调停苏丹国内日益激烈的冲突。

对于当时的具体情形，《华盛顿邮报》报道说：“乔治克鲁尼和抗议者们先是发表了一通简短的演讲，然后就闯入大使馆地界，接着他们马上受到了警告，警告称如果不马上离开大使馆他们就将被逮捕，在三次警告无效之后，警方出动逮捕了示威者们，之后把他们带上了警车。”

在其被捕之后，克鲁尼的经纪人发布声明阐称“他们是在抗议苏丹政府对其无辜的人民作出的暴行，他们要求在发生最大规模的人道主义危机前，对这个国家提供人道主义援助。”根据美国方面的最新消息，现在克鲁尼已经以100美元的保释金被保释出来。在被保释之后克鲁尼也第一时间接受了媒体访问，并说：“我们今天所做的就是想要让大家都能去关心正在发生的暴行，如果说我们的目的就是引起所有人注意的话，那看来被捕也是方法之一。”并且他表示很高兴可以跟父亲一起经历这一切。