The actor George Clooney was among more than a dozen people arrested Friday protesting the treatment of people in Sudan outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington. Protesters attempted to draw attention to accusations the Sudanese government is blocking aid from the Southern Kordofan region near the border with South Sudan. Clooney’s father and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous were also arrested. Clooney called for the government to stop killing its people.

George Clooney: “Well, thank you all for coming today. We’re here really to ask two very simple questions. The first question is something immediate. And immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Immediately. The second thing we are here to ask — it’s a very simple thing — is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. Stop raping them, and stop starving them. That’s all we ask.”