The experienced reporter of CNN, Clarissa Ward, and her team reported a shocking incident happening in Syria to the world. While searching for an American journalist in a prison, they encountered a prisoner whose existence was unknown to anyone. The footage captured by cameras shows the human drama that began when the team noticed a locked cell. After breaking the lock of the cell, Ward and the Syrian opposition member found the prisoner hiding under a blanket. The terrified man began to plead, saying, "I am a civilian." The prisoner, who had been held in a windowless cell for three months and completely cut off from the outside world, was in shock when he realized he was being rescued. When he saw the daylight, he exclaimed, "Oh my God, there is light," and expressed his gratitude to those who saved him. While recounting his horrific experience, the prisoner said, "I haven't heard from my family and children for three months." He explained that intelligence officers had taken him from his home and only questioned him about his phone, and that he had been tortured. As the medical teams arrived at the scene to check on the prisoner, the man began to tremble with the shock of regaining his freedom. Those around him tried to calm him down, saying, "Everything is fine, the Red Crescent is coming to help." This incident once again highlighted the inhumane practices in prisons and the drama of forgotten prisoners.
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