Extraordinary video shows the moment a CNN reporter discovered a prisoner who had been locked in one of the Assad regime’s secret facilities for three months — and was unaware that the dictator’s rule had finally come to an end.
The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.
He gave his name as Adel Ghurbal and claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months earlier — and said he had no idea the He also “did not flinch or blink even when gazing up at the sky” despite having said he had not seen sunlight for three months.Verify-Sy then found that there was no record of a Adel Ghurbal in the region — leading them to finding his true identity as Salama,
He also killed civilians during the Syrian Civil War in 2014 — and allegedly detained and tortured young men on bogus charges, many of which refused to pay bribes he demanded, Verify-Sy reported.
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