Doha Airport incident
Strip-search victim lashes Qatar inquiry as fresh accusations emerge
In 2020, Anna was pulled off a Qatar Airways plane and invasively searched. She says the inquiry probing the rejection of more Qatar flights was a wasted chance to question the country’s human rights record.
- by Angus Thompson
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Women deserve apology for what happened at Qatar airport
It is more than a year since 13 Australian women were subjected to a grossly invasive physical examination at Qatar airport. They have yet to receive an explanation or an apology.
- The Herald's View
Australian women invasively examined on Qatar flight set to sue after ‘being ignored’
Seven of the 13 women hauled off a Qatar Airways flight and forced to undergo invasive examinations at Doha airport are threatening legal action against the airline and Qatari authorities.
- by Sarah Abo and Tracey Hannaford
Qatar airport police officers charged over invasive searches of women
Criminal charges have been laid against an unspecified number of police officers working at Qatar's Hamad airport after women said they were invasively searched there last month.
Payne welcomes Qatari apology but says compensation 'a matter for them'
Australian women were among a group of international travellers forced to undergo invasive probes after a premature baby was found in the airport toilets.
- by Latika Bourke and Jennifer Duke
Qatari scandal: some answers at last
Qatar's ''offensive'' response to the discovery of an abandoned baby left female passengers traumatised, and the nation's reputation in tatters.
- by Deborah Snow
Qatar opens criminal probe over invasive search on Australian passengers
Australian women were among a group of international travellers forced to undergo invasive probes after a premature baby was found in the airport toilets.
- by Latika Bourke
'Waiting for report': Women on nine other planes were stopped and searched at Doha airport
Dozens more women from around the world could have been subjected to invasive body searches at Doha airport after it was revealed a total of 10 planes were caught up in the scandal.
- by Anthony Galloway
AFP concerned it doesn't have jurisdiction to investigate Doha airport searches
The Australian Federal Police is trying to work out whether it has jurisdiction to investigate the invasive body searches of 13 Australian women at Doha airport.
- by Anthony Galloway
'Some were upset, angry, one was crying': significant concerns over invasive Doha searches
Foreign Minister Marise Payne has described an incident at Doha airport, where 13 Australian women were invasively searched without their consent, as a "grossly disturbing" and "concerning" set of events.
- by Mary Ward and Anthony Galloway
'Gross violation': Australian women invasively searched at Doha airport after premature baby found
Thirteen Australian women have been forced into invasive physical searches after airport terminal staff found a premature baby abandoned in a bathroom.
- by Jenny Noyes and Anthony Galloway
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