Watch Committee
Britishnoun
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Viktoras Pektus, who has served 16 years in prisons and camps for his religious convictions, was arrested after helping to organize a Lithuanian Helsinki Watch Committee last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Helsinki Watch Committee, about 55 Poles, many of them former Solidarity activists or supporters, have died under mysterious circumstances since martial law was imposed.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Earlier in the week, the American Civil Liberties Union, in conjunction with the New York-based Americas Watch Committee, released a 287-page human rights report on El Salvador.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Watch Committee, on May 21st, held an inquiry into certain allegations regarding a deficiency in the water supply, and the inefficiency of the fire-engines.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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