CNN investigates Syrian prisoner’s ‘false identity’ in Clarissa Ward report

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In CNN’s Clarissa Ward’s latest video report, she films the moment she frees a Syrian prisoner from a secretive Damascus prison belonging to the Assad regime. After this report was published, Syrian fact-checking group, Verify-Sy, found that the man featured in the video, was not who he said he was and apparently gave the CNN journalist a fake identity. We tell you who this man really is in this edition of Truth or Fake.