Family members of Hassan al-Turabi, an opposition Sudanese politician, say he has been freed 12 hours after questioning following his arrest for alleged links to an attack on a suburb of the capital Khartoum. "He's at home," his daughter told the Reuters news agency on Monday.The government imposed a curfew in Khartoum in response to the assault by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a Darfur-based anti-government group, that began on Saturday. Low-intensity clashes have continued in Omdurman, on the western bank of the Nile opposite Khartoum. About 65 people are thought to have been killed so far.
It is the first time that the conflict has reached Khartoum in decades of conflict between the country's Arab-dominated rulers and fighters from far-flung regions. Al-Turabi denies that he has any links to JEM.