CNN captured the moment a shocked Syrian prisoner was freed from his cell
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 hadat a former Syria n Air Force intelligence headquarters in Damascus, CNN’s Clarissa Ward and her rebel fighter escorts noticed one windowless cell remained locked.
Herbal is clearly agitated and frightened and clutches hard onto Ward’s arm as she repeatedly tells him “you’re ok” as he’s handed a bottle of water to drink from.“My God, the light!” Herbal says after seeing the sun and sky for the first time in months. The journalist and soldier sit him down in a chair and he pleads with them to stay with them, his body shaking.“For three months I didn’t know anything about my family. I didn’t hear anything about my children,” Herbal tells them.
Herbal was then given a plate of food but could barely lift the fork to his mouth, the video shows. He wretches as he tries to swallow with his body unable to handle it.Herbal is then given the incredible news that Assad’s government has fallen. A soldier tells him there is no more government army — and no more prisons.He smiles, embraces the soldier and kisses him on the forehead.
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