JURIST - Paper Chase: British appeals court considering whether to rely on terror evidence obtained by torture

Lawyers for 10 foreign terrorism suspects held in Britain have asked a British appeals court to dismiss evidence gathered at US prison camps, saying that the evidence was gathered through torture. The lawyers are appealing a British tribunal ruling that the government can use evidence obtained by torture to justify holding the "suspected international terrorists," who are being detained under the UK's 2001 Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act. Lawyer Ben Emmerson called the ruling "an affront to the public conscience for states to rely in judicial proceedings on evidence that is derived from torture." Reuters has the full story. BBC News has background on the British anti-terror law, enacted in response to September 11th.