He was charged after trying to leave the country without a valid passport earlier this year.

Born Dante Terrell Smith, Mos Def was arrested in January in Cape Town when he tried to leave South Africa using a "World Government of World Citizens" passport. The World Government of World Citizens was established in 1953 by peace activist Garry Davis, who renounced his US citizenship after World War 2. He died in 2013.

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