In front of the judicial authorities, a member is expected to be found today (18.05.2025) complex northern Irelandwho is accused of terrorism. Rapper Liam Hannah, who uses the nickname Mo Tsara, in their concert raised the flag of Hezbollah.
The incident took place on November 21 in London. Then Mo Tsara, a member of the three -member band Kneecap From Belfast, Northern Ireland, he raised the flag of the pro -Rivan’s pro -Heavenly Islamist movement, Hezbollah Although in the United Kingdom it has been described as a terrorist organization.
The police were suspected that The rapper supports organization something that constitutes an offense, according to British law.
On May 21, charges against the 27 -year -old rapper were charged. In today, the trial will begin at 12:00 Greek time. The band in recent days invites its fans to come massively to support him.
You need to be more informed.@Kneecapceol Sang “Ooh Aah Hezbollah”!
If you don’t get the “Ooh aah” bit or even the word “kneecap” and the relationship to terrorism of those words, you are even less informed than I thought.https://t.co/lDzeAEvt2u
— Norn Eye (@NornEye) April 22, 2025
The band denied that he ‘committed this offense’ and denied that he supports Hezbollahdenouncing a “political” decision.
“They are trying to make us bother, to cancel our concerts, to remove my freedom to travel,” Mo Tsara had complained in late May during a London festival.
“If you are free on June 18th … we will gather in front of the Westminster court to support him,” said Moglai Bap, another member of the band.
At an event shortly after the accusation against him for a terrorist offense, Mo Tsara appeared on a video to enter the stage with his mouth covered with a film.
In their twitter post yesterday, Kneecap described the prosecution as “witch hunt”.
We’ve plastered London with a few messages ahead of this witch-hunt.
British courts have long charged people from the North of Ireland with “terrorism” for crimes never committed.
We will fight them.
We will win.
GRMA to our pals at @TenthManHello for sorting. pic.twitter.com/DbVQ6fTwda
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) June 17, 2025
Who are the Kneecaps
The Northern -Cirophean three -member complex was founded in 2017 and its third member is DJ sheep. Raps in English and Irish, calls for the reunification of the island of Ireland and defends its language as a “anti -colonial cry” in front of British power.
The same name of the band (Kneecap means a patella) comes from the practice of paramilitary organizations In the course of Northern Crusade to shoot their victims on the knees.
Kneecap sparked lively reactions by promoting April, from the Coachella Festival scene in California, messages accusing Israel that it commits “genocide against the Palestinian people” in Gaza.
Old videos from band concerts were burst into social media -including the flag, in which a band member also seems to shout “Front Hamas!, Front Hezbollah!”– And the anti -terrorist police said he was investigating some of them.
The band was also forced to ask for a recent apology After the release of a video dating from 2023 and seems to show one of its members to He calls for the death of conservative British MPs.
“I have heard infinite times that” it’s the end of the Kneecaps “because they said or did something, but all it has caused is to push them even higher,” says Reich Pipyat, director of the film “Kneecap”, a documentary -fiction (docu). who faced until 1998 the main Catholics Republicans with the Protestants of the Unionists, who support Northern Ireland’s stay in the United Kingdom.
After the start of the survey, the band was set aside by a festival in southern England and saw many his concerts to be canceled, mainly in Germany.
However, he has accepted the support of big names of music, such as Massive Attack, Pulp ή Fontaines DC, who denounced “political oppression” and “clear and coordinated attempt to censorship and cancellation of concerts”.