2008 Two men, 27 and 28 years old, with Somali and Swedish citizenship go to Somalia.
2012 August The two men and another British man are arrested as they try to cross the border to Djibouti, a small African country bordering Somalia. They are suspected of supporting al-Shabab, a terrorist stamp of, among others, the United States. Säpo contacts prosecutors, but since it was not criminal then to be part of a terror-stamped organization, the preliminary investigation in Sweden was closed down.
Instead, the United States is prosecuting them for supporting terrorist activities and weapons offenses. They risk life imprisonment.
"The defendants are not aspiring terrorists, they are terrorists. They did more than get terrorist training, they used it in terrorist operations with al-Shabaab, "the FBI writes.
But the lawyer and relatives say they were on the run from al-Shabab.
2012 October The United States asks Sweden for help with the preliminary investigation. Among other things, Sweden sent over secret telephone interception, scouting material and a voice analysis.
2012 November Sweden had wanted to bring them to Swedish soil, but instead they are being transported from Djibouti to the USA.
2013 The case gets a lot of attention and the men are called the "Djibouti Swedes". The Echo reports that one of the men claims to have been tortured during the Djibouti hearings.
2016 The men are sentenced to prison, after admitting to trying to support al-Shabab. According to the FBI, they were trained to become suicide bombers. The longest sentence will be eleven years.
2020 One of the men dies in American prison after being hit by the coronavirus.
Nearly 70 percent of prison inmates have tested positive for the virus.
He was 37 and had about a year and a half left on his sentence before he was released on conditional release.