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George Clooney calls calls for arrests of Russian journalists a 'slip of the tongue'

2024-06-04

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

A continuation of this story.

Perhaps it is better to let the missus talk, instead.

[Regnum] Actor George Clooney on June 3 denied the statements of one of the employees of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which he owns, that the organization intends to seek from the EU and the so-called International Criminal Court the arrests of Russian journalists abroad.

Anna Neistat, director of legal issues for the Docket project, previously made a corresponding statement. Clooney called her words a “slip of the tongue.”

“Someone in our foundation made a mistake. I am the son of a journalist. We at the Clooney Foundation would never persecute journalists, even if we disagree with them,” the actor said in a statement on the foundation’s X (Twitter) page.

As Regnum reported, Neistat previously stated that the Clooney Foundation will send requests to countries where there is a ban on “war propaganda” demanding that criminal cases be opened against Russian journalists. If a warrant is issued against them, representatives of Russian media will be detained in European countries through Europol, she noted.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that he considers this idea crazy. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, emphasized that representatives of the Clooney Foundation are trying to carry out persecution for political reasons. State Duma deputies will consider the possibility of recognizing the activities of the Clooney Foundation as undesirable in Russia, said Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the Duma commission to investigate facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia.

Posted by:badanov

#3 Prefer the Seth Rich approach?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-04 14:04

#2 Slip of the mask too.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-04 11:28

#1 'Tongue slipped like an Indonesian boy.'

Seems to be part of the trend of has-been hollywoods being bought - Clooney, Mark Hammill, Tom Hanks - and deployed as political operatives.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-06-04 11:18

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