In a video report, chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team, accompanied by a rebel guard, came across a cell in a Damascus jail that was padlocked from the outside. He was being held in a jail that had been run by the Syrian air force’s intelligence services until the Assad regime collapsed. Facial recognition software provided a match of more than 99 percent with the man CNN met in the Damascus prison cell. It’s unclear how or why Salama ended up in the Damascus jail, and CNN has not been able to reestablish contact with him. The medical relief organization later posted a picture of him on social media, saying they had returned a freed prisoner to relatives in Damascus.

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Persons: Austin Tice, Clarissa Ward, Adel Ghurbal, Assad, –, Salama Mohammad Salama, Salama, Abu Hamza, Sy, ” Organizations: CNN, Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, ” CNN, Crescent Locations: Damascus, Syrian, Homs