Viral CNN segment showing Syrian prisoner being freed under scrutiny

CNN is investigating the identity of a man who the network reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail as CNN cameras rolled after a local fact-checking group said he was actually a killer and torturer for Bashar al-Assad’s regime.  

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" in one of the Assad regime’s secret prisons. Ward called it "one of the most extraordinary...