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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "In the meantime we must deal with things as they are. We need a framework for sentencing and releasing prisoners and this is in progress. The quantity of years given to an extremist is less important than the...
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"Recent events appear to have damaged The Base’s reputation among white supremacists, but Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the Counter Extremism Project, said it is too early to say what effect it will have on the group’s radicalized members."
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"The Counterextremism Project reports that a neo-Nazi album has been found on the file hosting service recently. Reports suggest that the music contains lyrics praising a “white ethnostate” and encouraging the “murder and genocide” of ethnic...
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"On this week’s edition of The Hunt, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, tells WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green that confirmation is complicated."
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"Al-Shabab, which means 'the Youth' in Arabic, is believed to have formed around 2006. The U.S. State Department designated the group as a terrorist organization two years later, and in 2012, they pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, according to the...
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CEP Senior Advisor and former prison governor, Professor Ian Acheson speaks to Cathy Newman about the emergency legislation the U.K. government is preparing which would end automatic early release for terrorists
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CEP Senior Advisor "Ian Acheson, who led an independent review of Islamic extremism in the criminal justice system, told the BBC that the risk-management system was 'broken.'"
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"Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of the management of Islamist extremists in jail, said the prison service did not have the aptitude to manage terrorist offenders."
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"'We may need to accept there are certain people who are so dangerous they must be kept in prison indefinitely,' Ian Acheson, who carried out a review of how such offenders were treated, told BBC radio."
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"Experts are warning that terrorists could have some surprises in store in 2020. In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, says...
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