Since the fall of ISIS’s caliphate, hundreds of European FTFs and their families remain incarcerated in overcrowded, insecure and unsanitary prisons and camps in Syria and Iraq. Nonetheless, there is a broad European resistance to the idea of bringing ‘dangerous traitors’ home.

In the previous report, the authors presented the cases of five countries in the CEE region, each representing a different landscape in which the movement could operate. This report will focus on three of the selected countries, namely Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia.

In March 2020, CEP Germany carried out a sample analysis to test the extent to which YouTube, Facebook and Instagram block “manifestly illegal” terrorist content upon notification.

This report takes stock of and analyses the practical field of reintegration efforts for offenders with an Islamist background in Germany during and after detention. Specifically, this report focuses on the praxis of working with extremist offenders in prison, transition management, and post-release reintegration challenges.

Diese Studie stellt eine Bestandsaufnahme und Analyse des Handlungsfeldes der Resozialisierung und Reintegration von Straftäter*innen im Phänomenbereich des „islamistischen Extremismus“ im Strafvollzug und nach der Haftentlassung dar.

Dieser Bericht ist das Ergebnis der Kooperation zwischen CEP und der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in 2019/2020.

This study is the result of a cooperation between the KonradAdenauer-Stiftung and CEP. Authors Dr. Hany Farid and Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler deal with the destructive potential of so-called deep fakes – videos and images altered by artificial intelligence (AI) misused for political manipulation.

The Muslim Brotherhood is many things to many observers. Some label it a terrorist organization, while others accept it as a modernist movement. Supported by CEP, GLOBSEC has begun to map the Brotherhood’s work in a selection of countries in Eastern Europe.

Author: Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director CEP and former Coordinator ISIL, al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations Security Council

In February 2020, CEP tested the extent to which YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram blocked illegal content. The study found that the “notice and take down” procedure—the basis of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)—is not sufficient to reduce illegal content online.