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CNN’s Clarissa Ward Details Experience Being Held Captive By A Militia In North Darfur
Ward wrote that she was held captive with her crew earlier this month.
CNN ‘s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were held captive earlier this month by a militia in North Darfur, detained for about 48 hours before they were freed. In an account of the experience on CNN.com, Ward wrote that she, cameraman Scott McWhinnie and producer Brent Swails were attempting to gain access to Tawila, a town under the control of SLM-AW, a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement. She wrote, “Later, we would find out that an English speaker had called my husband and Scott’s wife from the city of Port Sudan, thousands of miles away from where we were held, to say that we were safe and in good health but threatening that we would be imprisoned for many years if they spoke about it to anyone.”
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