CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "It is impossible to imagine how frontline staff operating in this squalor could raise their game enough to manage the inevitable confrontation of denying extremist prisoners the material they need to spread their hateful ideologies. They can’t even keep the bins empty. Taylor observed that ‘there is no better sign of decline in a prison than a lack of cleanliness’. He’s right. It’s one thing to remove any ambiguity in the rules to avoid staff being bamboozled and intimidated by people using religion as an excuse to undermine security. It’s quite another to make sure staff enforce these rules and deal with the kickback."

[Translated from Polish] "The international phenomenon of the Independence March is the subject of the new report The Polish Independence March as a Contact Hub and a Model for European Extremism by Dr. Przemysław Witkowski, Jakub Woroncow and Dominik Puchała, published as part of the Counter Extremism Project initiative."

"Ian Acheson of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) carried out the independent review into Islamist extremism behind bars. His principal recommendation was about Friday Prayers, however it was rejected by the government. Speaking to The Epoch Times, the former prison governor welcomed the measures, but criticised the length of time it had taken the MoJ to put them in place."

CEP Senior Advisor & CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler write: "Political instability in one country will inevitably have a particularly strong spillover effect across its borders. The takeover of power by the Taliban in August 2021 and the re-establishment of their regime in Afghanistan represented a shock to regional and transnational security dynamics, with neighbouring countries fearing that activities of Islamist terrorist groups present in Afghanistan would spill over into their territory. The Taliban maintain close ties with Islamist terrorist groups, essentially acting as their protector."

"Against the backdrop of rising terrorism and tension, China is now trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East.

On this week’s edition of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said this is not a strong endorsement of U.S. influence in the region."

"The Counter Extremism Project, which keeps databases on extremist and terrorist organizations throughout the world,  refers to Jane’s Revenge as a 'militant pro-abortion rights group.' The organization also claims that Jane’s Revenge is responsible for numerous arson and acts of vandalism across the nation."

"In Syria, the terror group 'has generally increased or maintained a higher tempo of attacks' since an initial jump in activity last August, according to an assessment earlier this month by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York and Berlin-based non-profit.

'There are increasingly many similarities between attacks over the past months and the period of initial ISIS expansion in late 2019 and early 2020,' the CEP report added, though it cautioned the terror group appears to be increasingly focused on attacking civilians as opposed to security forces."

"As described by the Counter Extremism Project, the Texas sect of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club has taken a 'hard anti-police position, casting all police as mass shooters who harass minorities and seek out excuses to unload their weapons.'"

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project, 'Right-wing extremists in the military pose security risks beyond their potential for violence.'"

"'If you want to break up a demonstration, to toughen up your security forces at a rally, you can hire them,' said Kacper Rekawek, a researcher for the Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), a US-based charity.

'They've been used to target Russian liberals, the Russian opposition, Russian democrats, to simply beat them up. They are used to do the dirty job for others. They're not independent actors in that sense,' he added."