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Quebec judge finds rapper K'naan not guilty in sexual assault trial
The judge said there was not enough evidence to convict after the woman filed a police complaint in 2022.
- On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, a Quebec City judge acquitted Somali-Canadian rapper Keinan Abdi Warsame, known as K'naan, of sexual assault charges dating back to 2010.
- The 48-year-old rapper faced accusations of assaulting a woman in her 20s at a Hilton hotel room during a music festival in July 2010.
- Warsame denied the account during his March testimony in court, after the alleged victim filed a complaint with police in May 2022.
- Although the judge raised "questions about the artist's version of events," the court concluded there was not enough evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Warsame, famous for the 2010 World Cup anthem "Wavin' Flag," fled Africa at age 13 and established his career in Toronto after being born in Mogadishu.
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The Court finds that there remains reasonable doubt as to the events in the artist's hotel room in July 2010
·Montreal, Canada
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The somalo-Canadian rapper K-naan, whose flagship title Wavin-Flag had become the anthem of the 2010 Football World Cup, was acquitted of a charge of sexual assault on Wednesday in Quebec, according to Canadian media.
·Montreal, Canada
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The singer was acquitted Wednesday morning at the Quebec courthouse.
·Montreal, Canada
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Total News Sources10
Leaning Left5Leaning Right3Center0Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Left
Bias Distribution
- 63% of the sources lean Left
63% Left
L 63%
R 37%
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