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Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults

Anonymous man picking a barbell from a rack
‘Active clubs’ meet in gyms and aim to promote white nationalist, misogynist and hyper-masculine ideology (picture posed by model). Photograph: Dave and Les Jacobs/Getty Images/Blend Images

Four men from the Swedish branch of the international far-right “active club” network have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm.

In a verdict handed down on Tuesday, Stockholm district court said the three violent attacks, which targeted three men in quick succession on the night of 27 August, constituted hate crimes.

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