Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had designated The Clooney Foundation for Justice, a U.S. non-profit group, as an “undesirable” organization for carrying out work at “a Hollywood scale” to discredit Moscow, Reuters reports.
The Foundation was founded by actor George Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
“The Foundation carries out work on a Hollywood scale aimed at discrediting Russia,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said on the Telegram messaging app, without providing evidence.
“It actively supports false patriots who have left the country.”
It added that “under the guise of humanitarian ideas,” the organization promotes initiatives for the criminal prosecution of Moscow’s top leadership and publicly disseminates negative assessments of Russian legislation on foreign agents and NGOs.
