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British constabulary connected Wednesday charged a subordinate of Irish hip-hopgroup Kneecap with a coercion discourtesy for allegedly waving a Hezbollah emblem astatine a concert
LONDON -- British constabulary connected Wednesday charged a subordinate of Irish hip-hop radical Kneecap with a coercion discourtesy for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag astatine a concert.
The Metropolitan Police unit said Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, 27, was charged nether the Terrorism Act with displaying a emblem successful enactment a proscribed organization. The alleged discourtesy happened astatine the Kentish Town Forum, a London performance venue, connected Nov. 21, 2024.
The unit said the instrumentalist – whose signifier sanction is Mo Chara and whom constabulary referred to by the English spelling of his name, Liam O’Hanna -- was charged by postal requisition and is owed successful tribunal connected June 18.
Police are inactive investigating footage from different Kneecap performance successful November 2023.
The Belfast trio has been praised for invigorating the Irish-language taste country successful Northern Ireland, wherever the presumption of the connection remains a contested governmental contented successful a nine inactive divided betwixt British unionist and Irish nationalist communities. It has besides been criticized for lyrics laden with expletives and cause references and for governmental statements.
Kneecap was not good known extracurricular Northern Ireland earlier the merchandise of a raucous diagnostic movie loosely based connected the band’s origins and fueled by a dense premix of drugs, sex, violence, authorities and humor. The group’s members played themselves successful “Kneecap,” which won an assemblage grant erstwhile it was screened astatine the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It was shortlisted for champion foreign-language representation and champion archetypal opus astatine this year’s Academy Awards, though it didn’t marque the last cut.
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