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January 12, 2026

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the situation in Iran. “A Human Rights group says more than 500 people have been killed in Iran's government crackdown on the largest protests in several years. Iran blames the bloodshed...

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January 12, 2026

Protests against the mullah regime in Iran continue to escalate. There are reports of hundreds of deaths. Terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler explains what distinguishes this protest from previous ones and what makes it so...

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January 12, 2026

This is a typical case, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in Berlin and New York. "Basically, Berlin and Germany are important areas for Hezbollah to recruit sympathizers, spread...

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January 9, 2026

The problem: although the wave of demonstrations is widespread, there is a lack of leadership. “The moment has not yet come when the regime is seriously in danger. What is currently missing is a central organization of the protests and a vision for...

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January 8, 2026

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes that if HMPPS does not collect or hold information on the nature and extent of religious gangs in prison, it cannot hope to win the battle for power and space that is constantly being waged across prisons holding...

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January 8, 2026

Hamas is one of only 43 organizations on the EU's list of terrorist organizations, explains Hans-Jakob Schindler of the "Counter Extremism Project," a transatlantic think tank for analyzing and combating extremist threats. Furthermore, it has been...

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January 8, 2026

“For years, Venezuela has been one of Hezbollah’s key hubs for laundering drug money,” says Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Counter Extremism Project think tank. The cocaine mostly originates in Colombia and is smuggled through Venezuela to Europe...

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January 8, 2026

In Britain, the first Brotherhood clubs opened 60 years ago. “None were openly identified with the Muslim Brotherhood and membership of the Muslim Brotherhood remained (and still remains) a secret,” the Jenkins-Farr report said. According to a recent...

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January 7, 2026

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the left-wing extremist attack against the electricity grid in Berlin.

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January 7, 2026

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks on the terror attack against electricity infrastructure in Berlin.