ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews the various international programmes and experiences having to do with the custody and reintegration of alleged terrorists provides, in addition to existing literature, some practical approaches for dealing with purported extremists during their detention and after returning to the realities of everyday. In recent years, programmes aimed at the reintegration of Islamic extremists have been developed around the world. Some are extensive, others less so. This chapter considers what some of these ventures look like, the effects they are having and the factors that went into their development. It focuses on reintegration programmes in five non-Western countries and five European countries. Saudi Arabia has developed an extensive rehabilitation and reintegration programme that focuses on terrorists themselves, on the infrastructure of terrorist organisations and on extremist ideas. As in other countries in Southeast Asia, the Islamist terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) is active in Singapore and Malaysia, where it is the most important supplier of extremist detainees.