This is the tiny bolthole where an Iraqi man was forced to live for an astonishing 22 years after being sentenced to death by Saddam Hussein's brutal regime.
With only an old rug, a few cooking utensils, a radio and a copy of the Koran, desperate Jawad al-Shammari hid in the tiny space, measuring just half a metre in width by two metres in length.
His ordeal began in 1979, when he was accused of being a member of the anti-regime Islamic Dawa Party founded by Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, and was forced to go on the run.
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