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Complicity in terror
In the second of a two-part series, PATRIK PAULOV examines how two court cases highlight the role of Sweden and Britain in supporting extremist groups in Syria

IN THE autumn of 2015, a trial in the Swedish city of Gothenburg received a lot of attention. 

Two men from Gothenburg were charged with terrorist crimes committed in Syria two years prior to the trial. 

On December 14, they were sentenced by the district court to lifetime imprisonment.

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