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Stasi victim revisits Berlin jail

A former victim of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, is due to return to the Berlin prison he was once locked up in - for an art project.

Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel was arrested by the police in the 1960s while at a demonstration in East Berlin.

He spent nine months in a secret Stasi prison, where he was abused and tortured.

He plans to spend seven days living in the small cell with all his movements broadcast live on the internet.

Read entire article at BBC