Assertion: torture | /r/CapableOf | spread to most parts of the world
Facets:
value: from europe
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: by the 1980s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture "returned with a vengeance," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for "ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win 'hearts and minds.'