John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.,will be addressing an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening, 5/28/08. George Monbiot, a journalist is planning to make a citizens arrest, on the grounds that Bolton is a war criminal. He charges that Mr Bolton was "instrumental in preparing and initiating the Iraq war by disseminating false claims through the State Department" while he was under-secretary of state for arms control.
Mr Monbiot said he had formally notified police of his intention of performing a citizen's arrest. He said: "This is the one opportunity we have, because he is mingling with the public, which doesn't happen very often."
What is a Citizens Arrest? In the United Kingdom it is defined as follows:
“Section 24A of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 permits any citizen to "arrest without a warrant ... anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be guilty" of an offence.
