The ISIS attack on a prison in al-Hasakah, Syria, on January 20, and the
ensuing battle left hundreds of ISIS suspects dead, escaped, or unaccounted..


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CEP Webinar: “The Fall-Out Of Gendered Counterterrorism Approaches In
Northeast Syria”

 

(New York, N.Y. / Berlin) – The ISIS attack on a prison in al-Hasakah, Syria,
on January 20, and the ensuing battle left hundreds of ISIS suspects dead,
escaped, or unaccounted for. While the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF) have regained control of the prison, many questions remain about the
security and humanitarian risks that this situation entails. The incident has
been a powerful example of the various challenges posed by the 45,000 men,
women, and children from nearly 60 countries being held in SDF managed prisons
and camps for their alleged ties to ISIS in northern Syria.



The majority of women and children have been living in camps like al-Hol or
al-Roj in worrisome conditions for years. But according to a recent Human
Rights Watchreport
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, al-Sina’a prison in al-Hasakah held about 4,000 ISIS suspects, including 700
boys—some as young as 10 years old. While much of the debate in the previous
years has focused on the prospects of repatriation and return of (particularly
foreign) ISIS-affiliated women and children in camps, the fate of adolescent
boys has received less attention. However, ISIS’s gendered and militarized
roles for boys have led them to be labeled as a security risk, both by foreign
governments and the local SDFs. As a consequence, male adolescents are often
detained in the same prisons as adult ISIS suspects.



The approach to these boys is part of broader challenges of human rights-based
processes of threat assessment, judicial responses, and rehabilitation and
reintegration of ISIS-affiliated persons.

 

To discuss these challenges in the approaches to ISIS-affiliates and how the
evolving situation in northern Syria may impact security and the terrorism
threat in Europe, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is delighted to invite
you to this webinar.

 

The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.

 

Date:    February 28, 2022

Time:   9:30 a.m. ET / 15:30 CET to 11:00 a.m. ET / 17:00 CET

 

EVENT PROGRAM:

 

Presenters:

 

Dr. Gina Vale

Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
(ICSR), King’s College London

 

Sofia Koller

Senior Research Analyst, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 

Moderator and Introductory Remarks:

 

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler

Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A-session open to all participants.

 

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To participate in this webinar please register via this link:

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Please register up to 1 hour before the webinar start so that your
registration can be approved in time.

 

Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues with an interest in
the subject.

 

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