Stockholm — A Stockholm court on Tuesday jailed four men for hate crimes for assaulting immigrants in a case that has shone a spotlight on a growing movement of white supremacist fitness clubs that some experts believe have their roots in California.

The four men, aged 20 to 23, are members of an "Active Club" — loosely structured groups that meet in gyms and aim to promote white-nationalist, misogynist and hyper-masculine ideology.

They were given prison sentences ranging from three to three-and-a-half years for aggravated assault after they beat up three men of foreign origin on Aug. 27 in Stockholm.

The group first attacked a Black man with an umbrella while shouting racial slurs, prosecutors said. They then attacked a man of Syrian origin, knocking him to the ground and kicking hi

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