Kneecap's Mo Chara, aka Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, has been charged with a terror offence following a Metropolitan Police investigation into allegations that he displayed a flag in support of proscribed organisation Hezbollah at a gig in London last year.
The police charge is that the rapper was displaying the flag at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London on November 21 “in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation.” After being made aware of video footage from the gig, an investigation led to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorising the charge.
Ó hAnnaidh, 27, is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 18.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism, which reported the rapper to the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command have welcomed the prosecution.
Kneecap have issued a statement in response to the charge which they deny, and which they claim is "political policing" from the "British establishmemt".
