Moment CNN's Clarissa Ward rescues 'hidden prisoner' in Assad's jail

's Clarissa Ward witnessed the moment an incarcerated man at one of former Syrian President became a free man.

Ward was walking around one of the prisons where thousands of civilians were tortured and beaten to death in an effort to , who was captured in the war-torn country 12 years ago, when she came across a still-locked cell with a blanket on the ground.

After a guard shot open the lock, Ward and one of the victorious Syrian rebels entered the cell where Ward remarked that she thought she saw the blanket move and asked if anyone was there.

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