“... 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."

Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the NGO Counter Extremism Project, calls such actions transgressions : "They want to test how far they can go. This is a dangerous demonstration of power," Schindler said in an interview with the Münchner Merkur by IPPEN.MEDIA . There is no justification for this, especially not at the Berlin University.

Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the NGO Counter Extremism Project, calls such actions transgressions : "They want to test how far they can go. This is a dangerous demonstration of power," Schindler said in an interview with the Münchner Merkur by IPPEN.MEDIA . There is no justification for this, especially not at the Berlin University.

Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses the arrest of a Danish citizen of Afghan origin who was spying on behalf of Iran and scoping out Jewish individuals and institutions in Berlin with the possible aim of an attack.

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a private research institution critical of Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, claims that one of the RAF Foundation’s cofounders was the above-mentioned al-Nuaimi. Other members, according to CEP, include Mohammed Jassim al-Sulaiti, whom the four Arab governments included in their terrorism list in 2017, identifying him as “an aide to Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy,” whom the U.S. Treasury Department designated in 2008 “for providing financial and material support to al Qaida.”

Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the NGO Counter Extremism Project, calls such actions transgressions: "They want to test how far they can go. This is a dangerous demonstration of power," Schindler said in an interview with the Münchner Merkur from IPPEN.MEDIA. There is no justification for this, especially not at the Berlin University.

In recent weeks, we have witnessed war and escalating global tensions between Israel and Iran. As we progress with the hazard topic of global threats in season 3, this week we feature Josh Lipowsky, the senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project.

Iran’s supplies of enriched uranium could be converted into enough weapons-grade uranium to make about nine nuclear bombs at a site like Fordow, Castelli says. However, the uranium “is not going to enrich itself, and Natanz and Fordow are really badly damaged,” cautions Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former German diplomat in Tehran who today directs the Counter Extremism Project NGO.

Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joins a panel to discuss the Iran war.