watch committee

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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.

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

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They had promised well at the start, but they had never been themselves since La Milo had been attacked by the Manchester Watch Committee.

From The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)