CNN might have been duped by a so-called “hidden prisoner” from a Syrian jail that one information company claims is definitely a primary lieutenant within the Syrian Air Force Intelligence. During a section, CNN’s Clarissa Ward and a insurgent fighter uncovered a prisoner who seemed to be nonetheless unaware of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.
CNN has since stated the community is investigating the person’s background additional.
The Verify-SY information company – which claims to be a media platform figuring out false information and correcting it – is figuring out the “prisoner” as a Syrian officer who’s believed to have killed civilians and detained and tortured younger males in Homs. His posing as a prisoner, the group tweeted, “appears to be attempting to rehabilitate his picture.”
CNN captured the second Ward discovered the person, who was cloaked in a blanket in a locked cell of an emptied jail.
“We have been seeking to do a narrative in regards to the tens of 1000’s of Syrians who’ve vanished into Assad’s dungeons, and notably additionally about one American journalist, Austin Tice, who was disappeared,” Ward later reported on CNN.
Ward was proven coming into the cell after a guard shot off the lock.
“Is there somebody there?” Ward asks a number of occasions. The man emerged from beneath the quilt together with his arms raised.
A CNN translation stated the person claimed he had been within the cell for 3 months.
“You’re OK, you’re OK,” Ward tells him, aiding him out into the open and right into a car.
Social media shortly questioned the situation.
