CNN's Clarissa Ward Stumbles Across Hidden Syrian Prisoner In Unbelievable Scene

"In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed," Clarissa Ward said.

Journalist Clarissa Ward was part of a CNN team that reported it had discovered and helped to free a man still locked up in a Syrian prison, apparently unaware that Bashar Assad’s regime had fallen.

CNN’s cameras captured the moment Ward came across the man, cloaked in a blanket in a locked cell of an otherwise already-emptied prison, and assisted him out into the open air.

“We were looking to do a story about the tens of thousands of Syrians who have vanished into Assad’s dungeons, and particularly also about one American journalist, Austin Tice, who was disappeared,” Ward later reported on CNN.

“But when we started to look inside one facility, we found something that we never could have imagined,” she said.

After a guard shoots the lock off the door, Ward is shown entering the cell, where a dark blanketed form is seen in the corner.