Extraordinary video shows the moment a CNN reporter discovered a prisoner who had been locked in one of the Assad regime’s secret facilities for three months — and was unaware that the dictator’s rule had finally come to an end.

An incredible video shows the moment CNN reporter Clarissa Ward and her team found and freed a Syrian prisoner days after president Bashar al-Assad fled the country by plane. The man was being held in a windowless cell for three months and had been abandoned to die.