Uruguay prison diary preserved by Unesco
12 December 2014 Last updated at 14:54 ET
Uruguay prison diary preserved by Unesco
The UN's cultural organisation, Unesco, has formally adopted an extraordinary account of prison life in a Uruguayan jail under military rule.
Written on tiny cigarette papers, it is a diary written by a left-wing guerrilla, Jorge Tiscornia.
He hid the diary for nearly 13 years in the 1970s and 80s in his wooden prison clogs until he was released.
It's been added to Unesco's Memory of the World programme, which rescues historic objects from destruction.
In a statement, Unesco said it was "a living memory of long isolation, revealing the strength of perseverance".
"When you're in a prison cell with no natural light, you don't know what time it is, and after a few days pass you start to lose your sense of what day it is," Mr Tiscornia told AFP news agency.
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