CNN’s Clarissa Ward went viral last week when she covered the alleged rescue of a “Syrian prisoner,' who she reported spent “three months in a windowless cell.'
CNN is investigating the identity of a man who the network reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail as CNN cameras rolled after a local fact-checking group said he was actually a killer and torturer for Bashar al-Assad’s regime. CNN’s Clarissa Ward went viral last week when she covered the alleged rescue of a 'Syrian prisoner,' who she reported spent 'three months in a windowless cell' in one of the Assad regime’s secret prisons.
Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
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