The Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday that it would appeal abandonment at the end of September by the laws of British justice for “terrorist crime” against Mo Chara, rapper of the Ireland of Norte Kneecap.
“We appeal the decision to abandon the procedures, because we believe that there is an important point of the law that must be clarified,” said a spokesman for the Crown Prosecutor’s Office, without giving more precision.
The rapper was accused of “terrorist offensive” for wearing a flag of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement classified in the United Kingdom, during a concert in November 2024 in London. On September 26, a judge decided to abandon the procedures due to a procedure error.
A “political” decision
Mo Chara, whose real name is Liam O’Hanna (or Liam Og or Hanidh in Gaelic) has always denied any support in Hezbollah, denouncing his position as a “political” decision, after the criticisms made by the trio against Israel and the war in Gaza.
When he left the court, he was delighted that he “tried to silence” the group “failed.”
Since the accusation of the singer, on May 21, the group, who claimed aloud his support for the Palestinian cause, has seen his notoriety, but has also suffered several concert cancellations in Germany or Austria.
Kneecap members were also prevented from going to Hungary, where they had to act at the Sziget festival, they were expelled from Canada and delivered a tour in the United States.
The trio of Ireland of the North, which caught attention for the first time when informing in the Irish domination and denouncing British in Northern Ireland, agreed to notoriety in 2024 with his album Fine arts and a survived docu fiction, PatellaPrize in particular at the Sundance Film Festival, in the United States.
Source: BFM TV
