“... The people who have been in prison so far cannot therefore be described as prisoners or detainees. "They are hostages of the regime," says Schindler, who now heads the Counter Extremism Project, a think tank that focuses on terrorism. Ultimately, the Iranians are not interested in giving the German detainees a fair trial, but rather in convicting them on flimsy evidence in order to use them as political bargaining chips. This was also the case with Helmut Hofer. "The Iranians' idea was to exchange him for the terrorist Darabi and his accomplices," says Schindler. Kazem Darabi was the mastermind behind the Mykonos attack in Berlin, in which four Kurdish politicians in exile were killed. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Germany did not allow itself to be blackmailed by Iran.” 

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Shawcross has now disagreed publicly. The Home Office had, he said, ‘ignored’ key recommendations to beef up Prevent’s performance and the glass remained only ‘half full.’ I have some experience of bureaucratic sleight of hand at work when it comes to reviews and recommendations. When I was tasked by the Government to look into the Prison Service’s colossal and unforgivable failures in containing Islamist extremism a few years ago, I made 69 recommendations which were mysteriously repurposed into 11 without my consent; eight were finally accepted."

German authorities have arrested two suspected members of the far-right terrorist organization "Last Wave of Defense." Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler explains the group and examines the phenomenon of increasingly younger perpetrators.

CEP's Senior Director, Dr Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on NTV. 

All the shifts were emblematic of replacing a rigid, capital-centric approach with a fluid model focused on sub-regional frontiers, porous borders, and multi-alignment; his work provided global strategists with a more accurate, ground-level lens for analysing the Indo-Pacific. These paradigmatic shifts have decisively paved an undisputed place for Jaideep Saikia not only as one of the top five strategic thinkers in the world but also as a grand strategist in his own right in the global strategic arena - Dr Hans Jakob-Schindler, the Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project in New York

The consensus that seems to be emerging is that "the terms of the agreement as presented in the media are clearly very much in favor of Iran," summarizes Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former German diplomat stationed in Tehran and director of the Counter Extremism Project, an NGO fighting against extremist movements.

The old Goebbels villa north of Berlin has been decaying for years. Now an international organization wants to turn it into a center against antisemitism. The future of the site remains uncertain.

An international anti -extremism organization plans to develop the former Goebbels villa at Bogensee, north of Berlin, into a center against antisemitism and online hate speech. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) intends to establish another branch there and has approached the Berlin real estate management company with the idea, CEP Managing Director Hans-Jakob Schindler told the German Press Agency. 

Russia and the Taliban are building an increasingly close relationship despite decades of hostility and conflict. In this episode of Eastern Express, we examine why Moscow has become the first country to officially recognize the Taliban government and what both sides hope to gain. Join our host, Benjamin Lee, and his guest, Hans Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project, as they look at the new military-technical agreement signed in Moscow and the broader security concerns driving cooperation. The partnership reflects changing geopolitical realities across Central Asia as Russia seeks to limit Western influence and secure its southern flank. Could this unexpected rapprochement reshape the balance of power in the region?
 

Is an agreement on the horizon? Reports indicate that the US and Iran are close to extending the ceasefire. Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler explains what's at stake.

"The Iranian regime would like to delay an agreement a little longer, if possible," says security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler regarding the negotiations between the US and Iran.

Klette was arrested in February 2024, in central Berlin, where police said she had been living as "Claudia Ivone" for some 20 years. It remains unclear how she was able to evade authorities for decades, but Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank, said that extremist left-wing networks remain notoriously difficult for German police to infiltrate or to gather information on.

“Africa is the most important area of operations for Islamic State,” said Hans-Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s panel on Islamic State and al Qaeda. But Nigeria is a particular focus because it involves violence against Christians that resonates with Trump’s political base, Schindler said.

Attuned to Trump’s concerns, the Nigerians made a point Saturday of highlighting al-Mainuki’s role in overseeing attacks against ethnic and religious minorities. Trump made a point of thanking the Nigerian government for its role in the operation.