Twenty-one years ago, Saddam Hussein placed an execution order on Jawad Amir for supporting an outspoken Shia cleric.
Mr Amir escaped - not into a far-off town or neighbouring country, but into a space sandwiched between two walls in his parents' home.
He said for the whole of his hiding he never left that small, dark space and had only a tiny peephole to view the outside world.
Few possessions
"When I felt the danger I escaped to my parents' house, then I prepared my hiding place to keep away from the people so no one could ever report me to the regime," he explained.
"In this place I prepared everything I needed to survive."
The narrow space contains few possessions - a radio, teeth he lost while in hiding and pictures of his younger self.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2938998.stm
Mr Amir escaped - not into a far-off town or neighbouring country, but into a space sandwiched between two walls in his parents' home.
He said for the whole of his hiding he never left that small, dark space and had only a tiny peephole to view the outside world.
Few possessions
"When I felt the danger I escaped to my parents' house, then I prepared my hiding place to keep away from the people so no one could ever report me to the regime," he explained.
"In this place I prepared everything I needed to survive."
The narrow space contains few possessions - a radio, teeth he lost while in hiding and pictures of his younger self.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2938998.stm
