DENVER — The family of the man accused of carrying out the Boulder terror attack in June filed a petition in federal court Monday demanding their release after the Department of Homeland Security blocked a judge’s ruling to let the family out on bond last month.

Hayam El Gamal – the wife of suspected Boulder attacker Mohammed Soliman – and her five children have been detained for more than four months at an immigration detention center in Texas.

Court documents show El Gamal filed a writ of habeas corpus on Monday in the federal court in the Western District of Texas. A writ of habeas corpus demands that the entity detailing someone show a lawful reason why that person remains in custody.

Read the full petition here .

Those documents also detail how an immigration judge in September

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