CNN Confirms It Was Misled By Man In Viral Syrian Prison Report
The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.
CNN says it was misled by man freed in Syria report with Clarissa Ward
CNN confirmed Monday evening that it was misled by a man who was freed from a Syrian prison last week while the network’s cameras were rolling. During a package filmed on Wednesday, CNN viewers watched as chief foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward — along with a security guard who is a member of the rebel forces that toppled Bashar al-Assad’s government — discovered a man who had been locked away in a prison cell,
CNN: Freed Syrian prisoner in report was intelligence officer
CNN acknowledged this week it had been misled by a man purporting to be a Syrian prisoner but who was, in fact, a former intelligence officer under the Assad regime. The outlet said in a report
Syrian Prisoner US Reporter Freed Turns Out To Be Assad Regime Worker Accused Of War Crimes
Social media users have questioned CNN's role in the entire incident as it was revealed that the alleged prisoner was accused of war crimes.
A CNN team rescued a prisoner from Syrian jail. But is he really who he says he is?
After a fact-checking group in Syria concluded that a man found in an abandoned Syrian prison was actually an Assad officer who took part in tortures, CNN said it is now investigating if the prisoner
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer: report
We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” CNN said.
Syrian Prisoner Freed by CNN’s Clarissa Ward May Have Been Intelligence Officer in Hiding
Many questioned the man’s clean-cut appearance despite his claim that he’d been in jail for three months The post Syrian Prisoner Freed by CNN’s Clarissa Ward May Have Been Intelligence Officer in Hiding appeared first on TheWrap.
Fox News Reporter Defends CNN’s Clarissa Ward Against ‘Unfounded and Ridiculous’ Attacks
Ward was attacked over a report in which she and her CNN crew found a man under a blanket in a Syrian prison and gave him food and water.
CNN investigating identity of man freed in Syria report with Clarissa Ward
The network said Monday that it is investigating the identity of a man who was freed from a Syrian prison during a segment with Clarissa Ward.
CNN Investigating If Man Gave 'False Identity' In Dramatic Syrian Prison Report
A Syrian fact-checking group alleges the man in the viral report had a violent past and had been detained for less than a month.
Viral CNN segment showing Syrian prisoner being freed under scrutiny
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 admits man freed in viral segment was notorious lieutenant for Assad regime, not civilian as he claimed
CNN admitted on Monday that it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from ...
Viral Syrian ‘prisoner’ found by CNN crew cowering in cell ‘was a fleeing Assad officer pretending to be regime critic’
THE viral “prisoner” discovered by a CNN news crew cowering in a cell was one of Assad’s evil torturers, a Syrian ...
Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed ...