A CNN Report Showed Its Journalist Finding A Detainee Left In A Syrian Prison But People Think It’s Staged
“Did the prisoner just sleep through the liberation of the rest of the prisoners? Video seems strange,” a person commented.
CNN shared on Thursday, Dec. 12 a report by its chief correspondent, Clarissa Ward, who discovered a prisoner in a hidden detention facility in Syria, but people online say it’s staged.
During Ward’s report, she entered the prison with a rebel fighter and found a prisoner who had reportedly been left in a windowless cell, hiding under a blanket and unaware that rebels had freed Syria from president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Since Dec. 8, people have expressed their empathy for the plight of prisoners in Syria, particularly after the shocking footage and testimonies that came out of Sednaya prison, known as the “human slaughterhouse.”
However, many have raised doubts about the authenticity of CNN’s footage and whether it was staged for dramatic effect.
“Did the prisoner just sleep through the liberation of the rest of the prisoners? Video seems strange,” a person commented on Reddit.
“This seems so staged and makes a mockery of all the suffering and pain endured by those who passed through Sednaya. It really is shameful,” another person wrote.
Ward faced similar accusations of staging her reporting about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, when Ward and her team reportedly had to take cover from rockets by Hamas in a live report from Israel.
People on social media have accused Ward of being a “crisis actor” and said that her actions were staged to create a dramatic narrative.
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