abstract:Helsinki Watch was a private American NGO devoted to monitoring implementation of the Helsinki Accords throughout the Soviet bloc. The Helsinki Final Act was signed in 1975, and the organization was founded in 1978.
Another respectable human-rights monitoring group, HelsinkiWatch, says that giving electric shocks to prisoners' genitals, beating the soles of their feet, sexual abuse, putting prisoners on blocks of ice and hanging them by the arms, are all methods still used.