The "terrorism" charge against the singer of the Kneecap group has been dropped
The team manager welcomed the decision and stressed that "Kneecap is on the right side of history and the United Kingdom is not."
A British court has quashed the case against rapper Liam Og OhAnnaidh, a member of the hip hop group Kneecap, known as Mo Chara , who has been charged with exhibiting the flag of the Shia Hezbollah party during a concert at the O2 Forum in the north of the British capital in London in November 2024.
This year they offered a concert at the Bilbao BBK Live and you can also see an interview with the trio.
"The proceedingsagainst the defendant were unlawfully opened and are null and void, "said Judge Paul Goldspring, who proved the defence right. The prosecution said it did not authorize the filing of the case against OhAnnaidh when the police informed him that he would face terrorism charges."Mr. OhAnnaidh, he is free to leave, "the judge said in a statement to Sky News.
Kneecap's manager, Daniel Lambert, has welcomed the decision through his account on the X social network: "We have won. Liam Og is free." "Kneecap does not face charges or sanctions in any country, never. Political processes have failed. Kneecap is on the right side of history.
Before the trial, the group has said in Account X that the trial was "a carnival of distraction." "We said we were going to defeat them in the courts, and we are going to do so." Free Palestine, "the group said. It denied any support for Hezbollah and accused the authorities of" paying attention "to their actions" while allowing killings and hunger in Gaza, as they did in Ireland for centuries. "
The band, formed in 2017 in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is made up of three people who, through songs, support Irish republicanism, support the reunification of Ireland and the end of the British dominance of the Ulster, including Zionism.
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