The father of a 13-year-old girl who claimed she was kidnapped and taken to Syria has denied locking her up and physically abusing family members.

Mouhammad Tabbaa and his former wife Pamela June Tabbaa are suing the Nine Network over a 60 Minutes program aired in 2014 in which their daughter Nadia, now 29, said she was kidnapped in 2002 while holidaying in Egypt.

Mouhammad Tabbaa outside court on Monday. Credit:AAP

Nadia, who was given the pseudonym Rania Farrah, told the program she had been tricked into travelling to Egypt for what she thought was a holiday when she was 13 years old, only for her to be made to live with her paternal relations in Syria for the next five years.

She was interrogated about whether she had taken drugs or had sex while living in Australia, subjected to a virginity check and physically assaulted by her father, she said.