The UK government has lost its appeal over a judge’s decision to throw out a terror charge against a member of the Irish language rap trio Kneecap.

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as Mo Chara, had been accused of showing support for proscribed organisation Hezbollah following a gig in London in 2024.

Last year, the case was thrown out over a legal timing issue, prompting the government’s appeal.

On Wednesday, judges at the High Court in London said the 28-year-old would not face a new terror trial after it rejected a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) appeal.

  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    5 days ago

    Was the guy actually supporting Hezbollah? Because that goes quite further than just supporting free Palestine.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      genocide the UK is assisting is bad, but the real enemy are the resistance movements?

      would you consider la resistance an illegitimate terrorist organisation? they conducted terror attacks on Germans? on their vital lands…