Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, her
American husband, Daniel Wani, and their two children were stopped at an
airport in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and then detained and interrogated at
Khartoum's national security headquarters, the legal team said.
Details about why the family was
held weren't immediately available.
Wani, in a phone call to CNN, also
said that he and his family were being held at the national security office,
but did not provide details.
The developments come a day after
Ibrahim's legal team announced she'd been released from prison after weeks of
international controversy over her conviction on apostasy and adultery charges.
They also come as a man claiming to
be Ibrahim's brother spoke of seeking retribution, claiming that Christians had
tarnished his Islamic family's honor through the case.
The case began when one of Ibrahim's
relatives, a Muslim, filed a criminal complaint saying her family was shocked
to find out Ibrahim had married Wani, a Christian, after she was missing for
several years, according to her lawyer.
The court considered Ibrahim a
Muslim because her father was Muslim, but she proclaimed to be a Christian. So
she was charged with adultery, because a Muslim woman's marriage to a Christian
man is illegal in Sudan, and with apostasy, accused of illegally renouncing her
original faith.
Authorities warned her to renounce
Christianity by May 15, but she did not. She was convicted and sentenced last
month to suffer 100 lashes and then be hanged.
Ibrahim said her mother, an
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, raised her as a Christian, with Ibrahim's
Sudanese Muslim father abandoning her when she was 6.
"I am a Christian," she
said during her sentencing hearing last month, "and I will remain a
Christian."'
After her sentence drew
international condemnation from rights groups and foreign embassies in Khartoum
-- including those of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- an
appeals court this month ruled that the judgment against her was faulty, and
she was released, according to her lawyer.
She gave birth to her second child
-- a girl -- in prison last month. Her first child, a 1-year-old son, stayed
with her at the prison but was free to leave at any time, according to her
lawyer.
On Tuesday, a man who says he is
Ibrahim's brother, Al-Samani Al-Hadi, slammed the appellate court's decision
and talked of vengeance.
"The family is unconvinced by
the court's decision. We were not informed by the court that she was to be
released; this came as a surprise to us," said Al-Hadi. "The law has
failed to uphold our rights.
"This is now an issue of honor.
The Christians have tarnished our honor, and we will know how to avenge
it."
In court, Ibrahim denied being
related to Al-Hadi.
Al-Hadi did not comment on Ibrahim's
detention Tuesday.
Sudanese Parliament speaker Fatih
Izz Al-Deen defended the conviction last month, insisting that claims that
Ibrahim was raised as non-Muslim are untrue. She was raised in an Islamic
environment, Al-Deen said.
SOURCE: CNN
