watch committee

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Helsinki Watch Committee, about 55 Poles, many of them former Solidarity activists or supporters, have died under mysterious circumstances since martial law was imposed.

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Finally the Watch Committee decided that roguish Maurice may not sing in Cardiff.

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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.

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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.

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What I vote is, that our set form ourselves into a sort of Watch Committee to attend to any little matters of this sort.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol