Swedish court finds man guilty attempting to finance outlawed Kurdish militant group

A Swedish court on Thursday found a man guilty of attempting to finance the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.

"The district court sentences a Kurdish man to four years and six months in prison for attempted aggravated extortion, serious gun crime and attempted aggravated funding of terrorism," the Stockholm district court said.

"The man must also be deported from Sweden with a ban on returning here without a time limit," it said in the verdict.