Watch Committee
Britishnoun
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One was an old friend, Irina Orlov, wife of Physicist Yuri Orlov, who was sentenced to twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lukyanenko had been a founding member of an unofficial Helsinki Watch Committee, set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 declaration of human rights signed in Helsinki.
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
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
He had been solemnly in the mayoral procession to church, he had attended meetings of the council, he had been nominated to the Watch Committee.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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