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Jul 30, 2004
Getting Arrested at the Embassy
Anyone who’s anyone in the human rights sector seems to be getting arrested these days at the Sudanese Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue near Sheridan Circle. Just yesterday, the founders of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream were arrested on the embassy steps protesting the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Dafur region, something the House of Representatives classified as “genocide” in a recent resolution. Who will be next? Crosswalk.com says the arrests are becoming “trendy.” Those arrested so…