Clooney Talks With Brown About Darfur
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?George Clooney took a break from promoting his latest film Tuesday to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as he continued pressing governments to speak out about China’s foreign policy in Sudan.
The two met as the Olympic torch arrived in San Francisco for the only North American stop in the Beijing Olympic torch relay, which has been dogged by human rights protesters in London, Paris and Istanbul.
The protests have been fueled by anger over China’s human rights record, its grip on Tibet and China’s support for Sudan despite years of bloodshed in the country’s western Darfur region.
“I think the protests are good. They’ve been warned for a while that there was going to be some protests,” Clooney told reporters on the red carpet for the British premiere of his new film, “Leatherheads.”
Via AP