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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.

'" According to professor Darius Rejali, although dictatorships may have used tortured " more, and more indiscriminately ", it was modern democracies, " the United States, Britain, and France " who " pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks.