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.

當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間3月16日，喬治·克魯尼在華盛頓被捕，起因是他參與了反對(duì)蘇丹種族沖突的人道主義示威活動(dòng)。

這次示威活動(dòng)中，克魯尼是組織者之一，這次活動(dòng)的目的是抗議蘇丹政府對(duì)人民施加暴行，以及該政府阻撓并封鎖食品援助進(jìn)入該國(guó)的行為?？唆斈岜硎舅麄兿ＭK丹政府停止在首都喀土穆的暴行。據(jù)了解，克魯尼一直對(duì)蘇丹的政治問(wèn)題十分關(guān)心，早在去年1月，他就曾投票支持南蘇丹獨(dú)立，他還曾親赴蘇丹，并將那里的見(jiàn)聞告訴了奧巴馬總統(tǒng)和國(guó)務(wù)卿希拉里·克林頓，希望能促使美國(guó)政府調(diào)停蘇丹國(guó)內(nèi)日益激烈的沖突。

對(duì)于當(dāng)時(shí)的具體情形，《華盛頓郵報(bào)》報(bào)道說(shuō)：“喬治克魯尼和抗議者們先是發(fā)表了一通簡(jiǎn)短的演講，然后就闖入大使館地界，接著他們馬上受到了警告，警告稱如果不馬上離開(kāi)大使館他們就將被逮捕，在三次警告無(wú)效之后，警方出動(dòng)逮捕了示威者們，之后把他們帶上了警車?！?/p>

在其被捕之后，克魯尼的經(jīng)紀(jì)人發(fā)布聲明闡稱“他們是在抗議蘇丹政府對(duì)其無(wú)辜的人民作出的暴行，他們要求在發(fā)生最大規(guī)模的人道主義危機(jī)前，對(duì)這個(gè)國(guó)家提供人道主義援助?！备鶕?jù)美國(guó)方面的最新消息，現(xiàn)在克魯尼已經(jīng)以100美元的保釋金被保釋出來(lái)。在被保釋之后克魯尼也第一時(shí)間接受了媒體訪問(wèn)，并說(shuō)：“我們今天所做的就是想要讓大家都能去關(guān)心正在發(fā)生的暴行，如果說(shuō)我們的目的就是引起所有人注意的話，那看來(lái)被捕也是方法之一?！辈⑶宜硎竞芨吲d可以跟父親一起經(jīng)歷這一切。