The British government has lost an appeal against a court’s decision to throw out a terrorism charge against a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap.

Liam Og O hAnnaidh, whose stage name is Mo Chara, was initially charged over allegations that he waved the flag of Hezbollah during a concert in London in November 2024.

Afterwards at a press conference in West Belfast, Og O hAnnaidh said: "This entire process was never about me, never about any threat to the public and never about terrorism… it was always about Palestine.

“Your attempts to label me a terrorist have failed because I was right and, yet again, Britain was wrong.”