George Clooney Fears For Family Safety As Wife Takes Case Against Isis

George Clooney has opened up to The Hollywood Reporters about the high need of intact security in his family and the safety of his two children, one-year-old twins Alexander and Ella. His wife, Amal Clooney, a human-rights attorney, is representing Iraqi victim, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad -who says she was kidnapped by ISIS and trafficked as a sex slave. Nadia Murad had raised the plight of Yazidi women seized by jihadists - seeking accountability for genocide and other atrocities perpetrated by ISIS.

"My wife is taking the first case against ISIS to court, so we have plenty of issues – real, proper security issues – that we have to deal with on a fairly daily basis," Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter on this week's Awards Chatter podcast.  "We don't really want our kids to be targets, so we have to pay attention to that."

Last month, Amal asked the the United Nation's Security Council to prosecute Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria for rape, arguing that if the U.N.’s most powerful body cannot prevent atrocities of sexual violence from happening in wartime situations “then at least it must punish it” and make justice for victims a priority.
Amal had expressedher view on Today's Show that her husband's permission was gotten before she took the case.


'This is something I discussed with my husband before I would take on something like this […] We are aware of some of the risks involved,' she told Cynthia McFadden. ‘[George] met Nadia too and I think he was moved for the same reasons. He understood, I mean, that this is my work.'
'I think one of the ways to take action is to expose their brutality and their corruption, and partly you can do that through trials,' she added.
During the podcast interview George Clooney was asked whether he wished he could go back to being anonymous.
Mr Clooney said: 'My wife and I wanted to walk with our kids in central park and that's just not possible.
'That's something we're really conscious of. Everything changes when you have kids. You have to protect them.'




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