http://allafrica.com/stories/200407220893.html
Congressman Joe Hoeffel (Democrat from Pennsylvania) blocked the entrance to the embassy with his wife, Francesca, and activist **** Gregory as a crowd of protesters called on Sudan to act to prevent the slow death that has become the fate of the people of Darfur.
As they have almost every day since June 29, the demonstrators came together outside the embassy in the hot summer sun to march, sing protest songs and speak about the crisis in Darfur, where thousands of black Sudanese have been driven from their homes by Arab militiamen known as the Jingaweit.
When Representative Hoeffel and his wife and Gregory refused to respond to several warnings to move from the entrance, they were handcuffed and removed from the embassy by officers from the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division.
Prior to his act of civil disobedience, Hoeffel told the 100 protesters, including about 30 children, who joined the trio in forming a picket line on the Embassy Row sidewalk: "We are here to stand with you to say what is happening in the Sudan is genocide -- it is government-sponsored genocide. It is ethnic cleansing partially based on race, partially based on religion. It is wrong, and it is time to call it for what it is."
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